Expensive prestige project

“It’s only a matter of time before Europeans walk on the moon”

A milestone: the Ariane 6 is due to be launched at 8 pm.(Bild: ESA-David Ducros)

It is the big prestige project of Europe's space agency ESA: on Tuesday, 8 p.m., the new Ariane 6 launcher is to be launched from the spaceport in Kourou in French Guiana. The Tyrolean ESA Director Josef Aschbacher told Krone+ what the Euro super rocket is all about and when the first European will walk on the moon.

The excitement at the headquarters of the European Space Agency is great, nervous tingling can be felt everywhere. On Tuesday evening, the new European launcher Ariane 6 will fly into space for the first time. The launch window opens for four hours at 8 pm. The flight time of the rocket was estimated in advance at two hours and 51 minutes.