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As space exploration announcements go, a recent speech at a European Space Agency (Esa) summit could hardly rival President John F Kennedy's oration at Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1962, when he emphatically announced: "We choose to go to the moon." Those words set the US on the path to landing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon on 20 July 1969, effectively ending the space race with the Soviet Union. However, when Esa's director general, Josef Aschbacher, spoke to the press in November, after the Esa space summit in Seville, Spain, what his speech…
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