Aurora programme

This space art, titled The Next Stop, was selected by the ESA when discussing its Aurora program.[1]

The Aurora programme (sometimes called Aurora Exploration Programme, or simply Exploration Programme) was a human spaceflight programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) established in 2001. The objective was to formulate and then to implement a European long-term plan for exploration of the Solar System using robotic spacecraft and human spaceflight to investigate bodies holding promise for traces of life beyond the Earth.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Liftoff for Aurora: Europe's first steps to Mars, the Moon and beyond". www.esa.int.
  2. ^ "The European Space Exploration Programme Aurora". ESA.
  3. ^ "Assessing Aurora". Astrobiology Magazine. April 7, 2007. Archived from the original on 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2015-04-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)