The Grauniad has got all hot and bothered about the naming of an Army Helicopter pilot as one of
six new ESA astronauts and reckons:
"The astronauts could be among the first to walk on the moon since the end of the Apollo missions in 1972"
Given that ESA has currently neither the vehicles nor the vast sums required for a lunar mission, this seems rather unlikely.
Still. I wish him well.