Q&A: Human spaceflight is a risk worth taking, says ESA head

Friday, April 10, 2020 - 07:01 in Astronomy & Space

by Jonathan O’Callaghan Human spaceflight is dangerous, but worth the risk, according to Jan Wörner, the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA). But even so, there are limits – like Mars. Robots, as proxies for human exploration, can take on dangerous missions by travelling to places astronauts are not yet capable of reaching, but […]

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