---
title: "Europe’s Next Space Chief Wants a Moon Colony on the Lunar Far Side"
description: "The incoming leader of the European Space Agency is keen on establishing an international base on the moon as a next-step outpost beyond the International Space Station (ISS)."
date: "2015-05-02"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Fred Peterson"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/fredpeterson"
url: "https://futurism.com/europes-next-space-chief-wants-a-moon-colony-on-the-lunar-far-side"
categories:
  - "Astronomy"
  - "Moon"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "space"
---

# Europe’s Next Space Chief Wants a Moon Colony on the Lunar Far Side

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- Johann-Dietrich Wörner expressed his enthusiasm for a moon colony at the Space Foundation’s National Space Symposium, a gathering of global, commercial, civil, military and "new space” experts.
- Wörner said that "the moon station can be an important stepping stone for any further exploration in deep space," adding that a lunar outpost could help humanity learn how to use resources on-site instead of transporting them.
- The lunar far side is shielded from radiation-chatter broadcasts from Earth, allowing radio telescopes built there to survey the universe with very little background noise, he said.