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Before the end of the Cold War, exploration of the Moon and the rest of the solar system was dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union, as you can see on this list. Europe's launch vehicles at the time (Ariane 1 through 4) were mostly used for commercial launches to geostationary orbit. Why weren't any lunar or interplanetary probes developed for it?