00:00Because without this module, Orion simply wouldn't be able to survive in space.
00:04That makes the cost structure all the more interesting.
00:07Orion, 1 billion and the ESM, 250 million.
00:13And politically, the whole thing is clever as well.
00:16Europe builds the service module and in return gets seats for its own astronauts on Artemis missions.
00:21Jeremy Hansen on Artemis 2 is Canadian.
00:25On the next mission, a Japanese astronaut will fly and only after that will a European astronaut fly.
00:32Europe is clearly their junior partner with little bargaining power and without any real guarantee of reciprocation.
00:40To this day, there is no assurance for ESA as to when a European astronaut will actually get to fly.
00:47The Orion capsule itself is basically a modern reinterpretation of the classic Apollo concept.
00:55A person niewinem military.
00:56An image of the air.
00:56The IDA is the AC elders in place so you can put it in to fuel.
00:57And while burn money from the ESA of the ship that the body should have turned around for 25 minutes.
00:57Excuse me.
