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The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a multi-billion-euro investment to the robotic and human exploration of the Solar System. It represents a large expansion to the contribution that Europe is already making to Artemis, the NASA programme to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon during 2024. The new contracts are worth a total of €2.9bn (£2.6bn approx) and are designed to help Artemis become a long-term sustainable exploration of the Moon by

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