Why is nobody paying attention to this?

[fpb]

I had never even heard it, had any of you? And yet it is since 2007 that Germany had announced the establishment of a purely German space program, separate from the European space agency, and intended to go to the Moon. Now Peter Hintze, the German federal director of aerospace, has announced that Germany plans a mission to the Moon within ten years. One of the many ways in which the world media are corrupt is that they never pay any attention to news like this. There is a meme that Europe is lazy and declining, and that the future is in the Far East. Any news that contradict the meme simply are not publicized. And when German spacemen will in fact be walking on the Moon, everyone will be surprised, not knowing that the program had been widely announced.

(the news was reported by today's Italian Catholic newspaper L'Avvenire)

Comments

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

We've also lost most of the tooling and plans for the Saturn 5. We would need to start from scratch at this point.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Not the plans.
http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/saturn_five_000313.html
Tooling, maybe. Then again, there are lots of ideas for improving the concept of a heavy launcher, so maybe not such a huge loss.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

You lost thirty years of working at it, and it is in the working at it, not in starting something over again, that the real advances tend to be made.