The Director of the European Space Administration (ESA), Ashbarbach, said that the department has no budget power or political intention to send astronauts to the China Space Station.
On Wednesday (January 25), the American Spacenews website reportBusy with several international partners to support and ensure our promises and activities we are committed to international space stations. We currently have no budget power or political intent to participate in the second space station, that is, the affairs of the Chinese space station. "
The European Space Administration and the National Space Administration of China have previously cooperated to arrange for European astronauts to go to Tiangong Space Station in the future.
Samantha Cristoforetti and Matthias Mauer in 2017 with 16 astronauts in China were conducted at Yantai for maritime survival training in 2017.Christopic Reyti and Moore are also learning Chinese.In 2016, Chinese astronauts Ye Guangfu participated in the space staff training course of the European Space Administration.
These exchanges are to eventually realize that European astronauts flew to the China Space Station after 2020, but this plan seems to have been cooled recently, and there is no official statement on the cooperative relationship between the two parties.
