The European Space Agency agreed to help a NASA mission to take humans around the moon within the next few years, the first time astronauts have gone beyond a low orbit around Earth since 1972.
The European Space Agency and aerospace company Airbus have already delivered a propulsion and supply module for an unmanned flight of NASA's new Orion spacecraft next year and said it had now agreed to build a module for a second, manned mission that will fly around the moon as early as 2021.
Orion is eventually intended to expand human exploration to deep-space destinations such as Mars or asteroids.
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