Signature of the industrial contract for Orion spacecraft’s first astronaut mission: David Parker, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration, and Oliver Juckenhöfel, Head of Airbus at Bremen and responsible for On-Orbit Services and Exploration, sign the industrial contract for the NASA’s Orion Spacecraft’s first astronaut mission, at Airbus defence & Space, Bremen, on 16 February 2017 (also with ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer). This contract will see the second European Service Module (ESM) built at the integration hall in Bremen, Germany, where the first ESM is already being built. See http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2017/02/Signature_of_the_industrial_contract_for_Orion_spacecraft_s_first_astronaut_mission
