VIDEO: ESA human spaceflight director talks to Hyperbola

credit ESA/caption:ESA's spaceflight head Simonetta Di Pippo is discussing low Earth orbit shipyards for Moonships

On 16 May 2009 the European Space Agency's human spaceflight director Simonetta Di Pippo spoke to Hyperbola about the upcoming phase one work for the proposed Advanced Re-entry Vehicle, the extension of International Space Station's (ISS) life, collaboration with the Russians and what ESA could tell the Norman Augustine led US human spaceflight plans review

Go through to the extended portion of this blog post to watch the video. The interview occured at the Golden Palace hotel in Turin, Italy before the start of the ESA departure ceremony for the ISS' Tranquility Node 3 module