German language: ESA, NASA, Mars and Moon
 

http://www.welt.de/data/2006/07/06/947254.html - This is an interview (in German) with a former German shuttle astronaut who works at Nasa and Esa, about the risk of shuttle flights, why one needs to go to the Moon if one wants to go to Mars, the growing rivalry between NASA with increasing isolationistic tendencies, and Europe, Russia and Japan cooperating (and China and India declaring to start their own moon programs), and the future of the replacements for the shuttle program: the American CEV-program and the even better (because fully manouverable) Russian (or Russian-European) Clipper-program. He also comments on why all this has not so much to do with scientific research (maintenance of life support system on ISS for example consumes the biggest ammount of time so far, ten times as much as expected), but with cultural and political global dominance.