European Space Agency Boosts Budget to Catch Up in Space Race

ESA hopes for a European astronaut to join NASA's Artemis program for a lunar mission. It also signed a letter for a new Arctic Space Center.

European Space Agency Boosts Budget to Catch Up in Space Race
Photo of a view of the control room at the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany, from Sept. 2016, by Michael Probst/AP

BERLIN, Nov. 28, 2025 (AP) — The European Space Agency said Thursday it would increase its budget for the next three years to almost 22.1 billion euros ($25.6 billion).

Ahead of two-day agency conference starting Thursday in the German city of Bremen, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher had expressed concern that Europe could be left behind in space travel if it didn't invest more money, German news agency dpa reported.

On Thursday, Aschbacher thanked ESA's 23 European member states for their contributions.

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