Not to be outdone by Donald Trump’s desire to create his own strategic
Space Force, our own slightly milder embarrassment of a minister president Marcus Söder (
previously) is pressing for the German state of Bavaria to marshal its already significant contributions to the national
German space programme and ESA into its own
aeronautics agency.

I do not know exactly what to make of Herr Söder using his own face as the logo and perhaps is meant to either be a foil or a rival for narcissistic heights. As with Trump’s directive, there was a notable paucity on how resources might be allocated under this already (mostly) future-oriented administration.