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>there is no political will to do USA government built super heavy lift vehicle
What's SLS then? We don't have even that heap garbage. HLS exists because SLS exists.
there's a huge will to go to Moon (even if the real reason is to keep the lights on for Shuttle boomers)
>generally people don't give a shit about space or even know about it
you have launches from Florida (and other places too) and sense of national pride in being first on the Moon and have shit like Star Wars and Star Trek that feeds the interest further. Russian only sense of pride is Gagarin and WWII. That's their religion.
But for Europe, spaceflight is something that happens entirely outside of Europe and "therefore it's not important and not our concern".
People are very ignorant about things that don't concern them or at least things that aren't visible.

I believe we need European launch site in continental Europe, first and foremost.
And it had to be somewhere where people actually live and can see and hear it, if things were to improve.