Germany prepares to lay down its beach towel on the moon



Times Online
March 02, 2007

Germany prepares to lay down its beach towel on the moon

Roger Boyes, Berlin

Germany is planning to land an unmanned rocket on the moon in an ambitious
revival of a dream that has haunted the country since the 1930s.

"Why shouldn't we do it alone ?" asks Walter Doellinger, director of
the German Air and Space Centre. "We have the technology, we have the
know-how and we have the experience with robots."

There have been clear signals from the German government - led by the
physicist Angela Merkel - that it is willing to put up three hundred
million euros over five years for the initial funding of the so-called
Lunar Exploration Orbiter (leo). It is a sign of the new self-confidence
of Germany, a declaration that it intends to pursue a more assertive
policy in the world, and indeed in other worlds..../snip/

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