Next chief of ESA wants a Moon Colony on the lines of the ISS

#MoonColony #ESA #NASA #NationalSpaceSymposium The European Space Agency (ESA) would be getting a new chief in Johann-Dietrich Wörner and, he wants a Moon Colony to be built on the lines of the International Space Station where specialists from all countries can work and pool their resources so that Man can venture beyond the Moon.
This has been reported in space.com of 1 May 2015.

The incoming leader of the European Space Agency Johann-Dietrich Wörner has expressed his enthusiasm for such a concept of a Moon Colony while speaking at the Space Foundation’s National Space Symposium. This is a gathering of global, commercial, civil, military and "new space" experts and the symposium was held in Colorado Springs last month. Wörner is currently the chairman of the executive board of DLR, the German Aerospace Center and his appointment as the next director general of the European Space Agency (ESA) had been announced on Dec. 18, 2014 and he would succeed Jean-Jacques Dordain, whose term of office ends on June 30.
Agreeing that the end of ISS operations was inevitable, he explained that there should be a permanent moon station as the successor of ISS. This station should be international, "meaning that the different actors can contribute with their respective competencies and interests."
NASA chief Charles Bolden also took part in the panel of space agency leaders during the symposium and, in his opinion, the moon as an interesting destination.

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