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London - 18 June 2025

1. Various shots protestors outside Westminster Magistrates' Court

2. Various shots media scrum as Mo Chara is escorted into court

VOICEOVER:

Fans of the Irish-language hip-hop group Kneecap mobbed sidewalks outside a London court Wednesday as a member of the trio faced a terror-related charge.

Rapper Mo Chara is charged with one count of supporting a banned terrorist organization after he allegedly waved a Hezbollah flag during a concert in north London last November .

Mo Chara said it is a politically motivated effort to silence the band’s support for Palestinians before its appearance at the Glastonbury Festival.

He was released on unconditional bail after the hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. His next court appearance is scheduled for August 20th.

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UK CITY FARM HEATWAVE

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London, UK - 18 June 2025

1. Various of sheep, which are freshly shorn, grazing confined field at Vauxhall City Farm, London as they eat straw under a man-made shelter, with London skyline tower blocks in the backdrop

2. Wide of single shorn sheep eating straw on farm with city skyline in the background

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlotte MacDonald, Head of Programmes at Vauxhall City Farm:

"As you can see our wonderful sheep have just had a haircut ready for summer, so they have been shorn and now (have) a much lighter coat, they're cooler for these climes so that's perfect timing."

4. Various of sheep grazing

5. Mid of Jade Mortimer, Education officer at Vauxhall City Farm, feeding sheep a block of ice with fruit and vegetables

UPSOUND (English) Jade Mortimer, Education officer at Vauxhall City Farm:

"This is an ice treat designed by our young farmers that come in on the weekend. So in here we've got apples, lettuce, fruits and cauliflower, ready to keep them nice and cool in the heat, so hopefully (gives block to sheep)"

6. Close of sheep eating ice block

7. Various of Bonnie the pig eat a block of ice with frozen fruit and vegetables

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jade Mortimer, Education officer at Vauxhall City Farm:

"In the hot weather we make sure that we have stable doors open so that the animals can access shade. With our pigs just behind me we create a wallow, so we make sure it's nice and muddy and wet so they can get inside and cosy and soaked. We also make sure that they have sun cream. Pigs have the same skin as us so we sun-cream them in the morning ready for the sunshine and make sure that they have access to water all day."

9. Various of Mortimer applying sun-cream on Bonnie the pig

10. Various of farm worker adding water and making the pig's wallows more muddy

11. Various of goat being fed block of ice with fruit and vegetables

12. Wide of alpacas in farm enclosure

13. Various of alpacas inquisitively trying frozen fruit but refusing to eat them

14. Various of 'carrot kingdom' rabbit enclosure

15. Black rabbit crawling and sniffing camera

16. Various of rabbit sitting still

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlotte MacDonald, Head of Programmes at Vauxhall City Farm:

"City farms in general have a lot of different challenges to rural farms. When we think about the heat we're thinking of less natural shading than from the trees, less access to air flow. We're on quite a small little road here. We don't have the lovely country air, so we definitely have to be a bit more inventive of ways to keep them cool and provide man-made shade and shelter as well."

18. Mid exterior of chicken enclosure

19. Various of chickens eating frozen block of ice containing fruit and vegetables

20. Various of ducks swimming in pool at duck enclosure

21. V... [truncated]

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Berlin - 18 June 2025

1. Jordan Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul arriving

2. Mid of Wadephul

3. SOUNDBITE (German) Johann Wadephul, German Foreign Minister:

"Together with my French and British counterparts, as well as the European Union's foreign affairs representative, we held a phone call with the Iranian Foreign Minister on Monday and made a clear proposal. We, as the E3, remain ready to negotiate a solution. However, Iran must urgently take action. Iran needs to undertake confidence-building and verifiable measures, such as credibly demonstrating that the leadership in Tehran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. It is never too late to come to the negotiating table, as long as one comes with honest intentions."

4. Various of Safadi and Wadephul

5. Mid of Wadephul

6. Safadi and Wadephul shaking hands

STORYLINE:

Germany’s foreign minister has underlined European countries’ willingness to talk to Iran about a solution to the crisis over its nuclear program, but says there needs to be movement from Tehran.

Speaking at a joint news conference with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Johann Wadephul said Wednesday that “it is never too late to come to the negotiating table, if you come with honest intentions.”

He spoke a day after he, his French and British counterparts and the European Union foreign policy chief had a call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Wadephul said the European officials made clear that the European countries – which were part of Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers – “still stand ready to negotiate on a solution.”

But he added: “Iran must now move urgently. Iran must take confidence-building and verifiable measures – such as credibly demonstrating that the leadership in Tehran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon."

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Beijing - 18 June 2025

1. Wide of news conference

2. Wide of reporters

3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Guo Jiakun, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson:

“As of now, under the coordination of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and embassies and consulates in Iran, and with the active support of neighboring countries, 791 Chinese nationals have been relocated from Iran to safe areas, and over 1,000 more are currently in the process of evacuation.”

4. Reporters

5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Guo Jiakun, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson:

“Chinese embassies and consulates in neighboring countries such as Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan have sent task forces to assist Chinese citizens passing the border ports and help with their temporary resettlement and return to China afterwards. Some Chinese nationals have also been safely evacuated from Israel. China expresses its gratitude for the strong support and assistance provided by the relevant countries. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the relevant diplomatic missions will continue to make every effort to help with the evacuation of Chinese citizens.”

6. Reporters

7. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Guo Jiakun, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson:

“China is deeply worried about the current developments and expresses serious concern. China opposes any actions that violate the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and infringe on the sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity of other countries. The further escalation of tensions in the Middle East does not serve the interests of any party. Countries with special influence on Israel should adopt an objective and fair stance and fulfill their due responsibilities by playing a positive and constructive role in de-escalating the situation and preventing further conflict.”

8. Reporters

9. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Guo Jiakun, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson:

“The G7 Summit once again manipulated China-related issues, making groundless accusations on issues of Taiwan, the South China Sea, and the East China Sea, smearing China’s so-called overcapacity and market distortion, interfering in China’s internal affairs, and violating the basic norms of international relations. China firmly opposes this and has lodged solemn protests with the relevant parties.”

10. Reporters

11. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Guo Jiakun, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson:

“China remains committed to a high level of openness and will continue to provide a vast market and development opportunities for European enterprises. China is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with the EU, properly handle trade differences, and achieve mutual benefit and common development. At the same time, we firmly oppose any attempts to harm China’s development rights or to sacrifice China’s interests for their own gain.”

12. Various of news briefing

STORYLINE:

China’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday confirmed that 791 Chinese natio... [truncated]

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Galena, Alaska - 21 May 2025

1. Aerial view of solar panel array under construction

2. Various of workers installing solar panels on array

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Galena, Alaska - 22 May 2025

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Scotton, Galena city councilman:

"So a number of years ago, actually over 8 years ago, the community went down the path, the city starting the project of looking for grant money to support a large scale community solar array alongside a battery energy storage system, a BESS, as they're commonly known, that could potentially offset a lot of diesel that is burned in our powerhouse to provide electricity for the community."

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Galena, Alaska - 21 May 2025

4. More of workers installing solar panels on array

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Aaren Sommer, Galena resident and solar array worker:

"I have to go through and get diesel for myself from here and then, which is pretty pricey, about like 8 (USD) something a gallon, which is kind of absurd for city prices. And yeah, it's really exciting to see this (will) help out the community a lot."

6. Brad Scotton piloting plane over the Yukon River

7. Aerial of swath of birch trees cut down to power a biomass plant

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Galena, Alaska - 22 May 2025

8. Various of workers cutting and splitting logs

9. Various of chipped birch trees to power a biomass plant

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Scotton, Galena city councilman:

"SEGA started more than 10 years ago as a non-profit with its primary function to provide renewable resource biomass material to the school district to heat their campus buildings for the boarding school that's here in the former Air Force base. So we heat those buildings with chipped birch trees for a big biomass boiler plant and that offsets a tremendous amount of diesel."

11. Exterior of Galena Interior Learning Academy, located in former U.S. Air Force buildings

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Galena, Alaska - 21 May 2025

12. Various of graduation ceremonies for Galena Interior Learning Academy students

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Galena, Alaska - 22 May 2025

13. Various of teacher Will Kramer in his garage classroom

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Will Kramer, teacher at Galena Interior Learning Academy:

"Well if you as a community go in and you get solar, you can get some wind, you know, you have invested in your community, your community owns that infrastructure, you are the owner of it and now that infrastructure is providing you the power at no cost because a lot of the infrastructure projects are built on grants. So once we kind of start talking about that, you see them (students) and not everyone, but they kind of start to realize that there are a lot of other things to the sustainable energy thing than just, you know, we gotta stop climate change."

15. More of Kramer in his garage classroom

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Will Kramer, teacher at Galena Interior Learning Academy:

"But as high schoolers that are about to ge... [truncated]

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Galena, Alaska - 21 May 2025

1. Aerial view of solar panel array under construction

2. Various of workers installing solar panels on array

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Galena, Alaska - 22 May 2025

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Scotton, Galena city councilman:

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"So a number of years ago, actually over 8 years ago, the community went down the path the city starting the project of looking for grant money to support a large scale community solar array alongside a battery energy storage system, that could potentially offset a lot of diesel that is burned in our powerhouse to provide electricity for the community."

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Galena, Alaska - 21 May 2025

4. More of workers installing solar panels on array

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Aaren Sommer, Galena resident and solar array worker:

++PARTIALLY COVERED++

"I have to go through and get diesel for myself from here and then, which is pretty pricey, about like 8 (USD) something a gallon, which is kind of absurd for city prices. And yeah, it's really exciting to see this (will) help out the community a lot."

6. Brad Scotton piloting plane over the Yukon River

7. Aerial of swath of birch trees cut down to power a biomass plant

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Galena, Alaska - 22 May 2025

8. Various of workers cutting and splitting logs

9. Various of chipped birch trees to power a biomass plant

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Scotton, Galena city councilman:

++PARTIALLY COVERED++

"SEGA started more than 10 years ago as a non-profit with its primary function to provide renewable resource biomass material to the school district to heat their campus buildings for the boarding school that's here in the former Air Force base. So we heat those buildings with chipped birch trees for a big biomass boiler plant and that offsets a tremendous amount of diesel."

11. Exterior of Galena Interior Learning Academy, located in former U.S. Air Force buildings

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Galena, Alaska - 21 May 2025

12. Various of graduation ceremonies for Galena Interior Learning Academy students

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Galena, Alaska - 22 May 2025

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Will Kramer, teacher at Galena Interior Learning Academy: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++

"As high schoolers that are about to get into the real world and be consumers and just wanting to live their life, money talks. If you as a community go in and you get solar you can get some wind, you know, you have invested in your community, your community owns that infrastructure, and now that infrastructure is providing you the power at no cost. And then on top of that, you then could get a job working on maintaining, repairing, building these projects. So it's this total big flip that can arise because of some of these projects."

14. Kramer working in his garage classroom

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Galena, Alaska - 22 May 2025

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Scotton, Galena city councilman:

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"The funding scenario... [truncated]

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Tokyo - 18 June 2025

1. Various of people holding parasols, walking in the heat in central Tokyo

2. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Tomoya Nakaura, student in Tokyo:

“It suddenly got hot this week. It looks like the rainy season is over. Recently, I’ve been thinking about getting a parasol. But since I’m a man, I don’t have the habit of carrying them. I’m still thinking about it.”

3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Maho Kato, Tokyo resident:

“Ten years ago, it would have been still the middle of the rainy season, but the temperatures feel like what we used to get once the rainy season was over."

4. Various of cooling mist being sprayed for pedestrians

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Megan LaPoint, international schoolteacher in Tokyo:

"I'm pretty much treating it like it's August right now, because this is standard weather for August. I actually, you'll see a lot of people around have the parasols. So I actually have a parasol when I'm going to go for long walks. I go out in the early mornings and late evenings and try to avoid the heat during the day.”

6. Various of people crossing street

STORYLINE:

Tokyo residents were seen equipped with parasols, portable fans and bottled drinks in hand on Wednesday as the Japanese Meteorological Agency issued heatstroke advisories across Japan.

High temperatures hit western Japan, including in Tajima City in Gifu prefecture,e where it had reached 37.6 degrees Celsius (99.68 Fahrenheit).

In Tokyo, the temperature reached nearly 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) — unusually high for this time of the year, as residents adjusted to the intense summer heat.

“I’m pretty much treating it like it's August right now,” said Megan LaPoint, a teacher at an international school in Tokyo.

According to the Tokyo Fire Department, more than 50 people were sent to hospital due to heatstrokes on Wednesday.

One person died from a heatstroke in the nearby Kanagawa prefecture, according to local authorities.

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Le Bourget, France – 17 June 2025

1. Various of the Mona Luna, a large lunar rover concept developed by Venturi Space for ESA

2. Various of solar panels on Mona Luna

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Le Bourget, France – 16 June 2025

3. Wide of unveiling ceremony for Mona Luna, a large lunar rover concept developed by Venturi Space for ESA

4. Tilt up of French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy talking at ceremony

5. Mona Luna being unveiled

6. Antonio Delfino, Director of Space Affairs, Venturi Space, talking at ceremony

7. Close of Venturi Space, ESA and CNES logos on lunar rover

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Delfino, Director of Space Affairs, Venturi Space:

"So the technologies associated to the rover are quite innovative, because nobody was interested in a massive rover. If we develop a lunar economy one day on the moon, you need mobility. It's like it was the case in Europe, around the world, 100 years ago. Mobility is very important to transport goods, transport persons. So if you want really to exploit the moon, to mine the moon, because the moon is very important thing for humanity, it would be important to have mobility. This is why we are, and you see here, just massive rovers, not just small rovers."

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Le Bourget, France – 17 June 2025

9. Tilt down of Mona Luna

10. Various of flexible wheels

11. Low angle of rover

12. Close of wheel

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Le Bourget, France – 16 June 2025

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Delfino, Director of Space Affairs, Venturi Space:

"This rover has the possibility to climb slopes with 27 degrees of slopes. So you have to avoid the rover to be stuck on very loose soil. On the moon you have very loose soils. This is why the mobility is very, very important. And the rover we designed until now, they have not compliant wheels, they have rigid wheels. And these rigid wheels cannot climb very steep slopes."

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Le Bourget, France – 17 June 2025

14. Various of Mona Luna

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Le Bourget, France – 16 June 2025

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Delfino, Director of Space Affairs, Venturi Space:

"You can take much more risk. And this is the story of commercialisation. So the idea is to cut the cost also. This is the reason why having not public fund but private fund, you can push at the limit. So you can allow yourself to make more experiments and to sustain failures and go fast. And at the end of the day, you can achieve some commercialisation at low cost.”

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Le Bourget, France – 17 June 2025

16. Tilt down from rockets to Paris Space Hub at Paris Air Show

17. Close of ESA logo

18. Tilt down of ESA booth

19. Various of model of astronaut and lunar lander

20. SOUNDBITE (English) Dietmar Pilz, Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality, ESA:

"It is complex and it would be so much easier if there would be only one company that develops everything. But there are several reasons why this is not the case. Number one, ... [truncated]

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Geneva - 18 June 2025

1. Wide of Iran's ambassador in Geneva Ali Bahreini arriving for press conference

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Bahreini, Iranian ambassador in Geneva:

"Israel has attacked our country without any reason. Israel has attacked our civilians, our civilian infrastructure, and Israel has violated the integrity of Iran, has violated our territorial integrity.”

3. Wide of reporters taking pictures of Bahreini

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Bahreini, Iranian ambassador in Geneva:

"We will respond very, very, very seriously and strongly. And that is what we are doing now. Nobody should expect Iran to show any kind of restraint, nobody should expect Iran to be indifferent to its security and security of the people. Iran will respond very strongly."

5. Wide of press conference

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Bahreini, Iranian ambassador in Geneva:

"The remarks made by Donald Trump are completely unwarranted, are very hostile. We cannot ignore them. We are vigilant about what Donald Trump is saying. We will put it in our calculations, in our assessments. And, there is a line which, if crossed, there should be a response on our side. And that line will be defined by our relevant authorities, including military forces. And once the red line is crossed, the response will come."

7. Mid of Bahreini sitting next to reporter

STORYLINE:

A top Iranian diplomat said U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments calling for Iran to surrender after Israel began military action against the Islamic republic are “hostile” and “unwarranted”.

Ali Bahreini, Iran's ambassador in Geneva, accused the United States of not wanting security in the Middle East, and alluded to Trump’s post Tuesday on social media calling for Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.”

“We cannot ignore them. We are vigilant about what Donald Trump is saying. We will put it in our calculations, in our assessments,” he told reporters on Wednesday.

Speaking to the press at the U.N. offices in Geneva, Bahreini insisted that Iran had repeatedly announced that it has no intention to produce nuclear weapons -- a top concern for Israeli authorities.

The ambassador rejected any talk of a “setback” on Iran’s nuclear research and technological activities caused by Israel’s military action.

Bahreini sought to project a defiant message from Tehran and defended its nuclear program as purely peaceful and designed for civilian use at a long-planned news conference with the United Nations press corps in the Swiss city.

“Israel has attacked our country without any reason,” he said, and Iran would respond “on behalf of humanity, because humanity is attacked. International peace and security has been attacked and international order has been attacked.”

The comments came as Israeli warplanes pounded Iran’s capital overnight and into Wednesday, striking a facility used to make uranium centrifuges and another that made missile components, according to ... [truncated]

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Le Bourget, France – 17 June 2025

1. Various of the Mona Luna, a large lunar rover concept developed by Venturi Space for ESA

2. Various of solar panels on Mona Luna

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Le Bourget, France – 16 June 2025

3. Wide of unveiling ceremony for Mona Luna, a large lunar rover concept developed by Venturi Space for ESA

4. Tilt up of French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy talking at ceremony

5. Mona Luna being unveiled

6. Antonio Delfino, Director of Space Affairs, Venturi Space, talking at ceremony

7. Close of Venturi Space, ESA and CNES logos on lunar rover

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Delfino, Director of Space Affairs, Venturi Space:

"So the technologies associated to the rover are quite innovative, because nobody was interested in a massive rover. If we develop a lunar economy one day on the moon, you need mobility. It's like it was the case in Europe, around the world, 100 years ago. Mobility is very important to transport goods, transport persons. So if you want really to exploit the moon, to mine the moon, because the moon is very important thing for humanity, it would be important to have mobility. This is why we are, and you see here, just massive rovers, not just small rovers."

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Le Bourget, France – 17 June 2025

9. Tilt down of Mona Luna

10. Various of flexible wheels

11. Low angle of rover

12. Close of wheel

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Le Bourget, France – 16 June 2025

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Delfino, Director of Space Affairs, Venturi Space:

"This rover has the possibility to climb slopes with 27 degrees of slopes. So you have to avoid the rover to be stuck on very loose soil. On the moon you have very loose soils. This is why the mobility is very, very important. And the rover we designed until now, they have not compliant wheels, they have rigid wheels. And these rigid wheels cannot climb very steep slopes."

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Le Bourget, France – 17 June 2025

14. Various of Mona Luna

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Le Bourget, France – 16 June 2025

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Delfino, Director of Space Affairs, Venturi Space:

"You can take much more risk. And this is the story of commercialisation. So the idea is to cut the cost also. This is the reason why having not public fund but private fund, you can push at the limit. So you can allow yourself to make more experiments and to sustain failures and go fast. And at the end of the day, you can achieve some commercialisation at low cost.”

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Le Bourget, France – 17 June 2025

16. Tilt down from rockets to Paris Space Hub at Paris Air Show

17. Close of ESA logo

18. Tilt down of ESA booth

19. Various of model of astronaut and lunar lander

20. SOUNDBITE (English) Dietmar Pilz, Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality, ESA:

"It is complex and it would be so much easier if there would be only one company that develops everything. But there are several reasons why this is not the case. Number one, ... [truncated]

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