French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday called on Europe to develop its own crewed spaceflight capability within a decade as part of a broader push to strengthen the continent's space sector.

While the continent provides its own hardware to American-led missions, it still relies on the U.S. to send astronauts into orbit.

ÉDITORIAL. Les pays du Vieux Continent continuent de gérer le sujet du spatial comme un assemblage de souverainetés nationales alors que la compétition se joue entre blocs de…