Europe going it alone with manned space craft

More options, separate technology and backup one with the other are a few of the positive aspects of this development. Europes ambitions to build a manned space craft proved incompatible with Russia’s technical requirements. A manned ATV based vehicle will use the existing Ariane 5 rocket. I am keeping an eye on this development. We could see european astronauts with their own vehicle in space by 2020 or sooner.