Watch Nasa Unveil Landing Sites For Human Return To The Moon

NASA is serious about returning humans to the Moon this decade and has already worked out the most convenient landing sites to be targeted by the Artemis 3 mission in 2025. The agency will reveal the candidate landing spots in a briefing today (Aug. 19) at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT), NASA said in a statement (opens in new tab). NASA and its partners plan to land near the lunar south pole, where water ice is believed to exist in permanently shadowed craters. The region also presents exciting opportunities for scientific exploration, including astronomical observations from the lunar surface.

NASA wants to land astronauts near the Moon’s south pole with the Artemis 3 mission in 2025. (Image: NASA) “Each of the selected areas, from which specific landing sites could be selected, is of scientific interest and was evaluated based on terrain, communications and lighting conditions, as well as the ability to achieve science objectives,” NASA said in the announcement. . “NASA will work with the broader science community over the coming months to discuss the merits of each region.” If successful, the landing will mark the first time since Apollo 17 mission in 1972 that humans will have set foot on Earth’s celestial companion. The ambitious Artemis program aims not only to put the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface, but also to establish a permanent human presence on the moon and in orbit. The first step of the Artemis program is set to take place later this month with its uncrewed test flight NASA Space Launch System rocketwhich will pick up an empty one Orion crew capsule for a round trip to the moon and back to test a variety of critical technologies. If successful, dispatch is called Artemis 1it will pave the way for the first human lunar return trip in 2024 and the subsequent landing in 2025. NASA has already been selected SpaceX to build the landing gear to carry astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon as part of the Artemis 3 mission. Later in the decade, NASA and its partners (the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), plan to establish a permanent space station in orbit around the moon, called gateand finally a base on the surface of the moon. In the future, missions to Mars it can take off from the moon instead of Earth to reduce the cost and technical complexity of these launches. Follow Tereza Pultarova on Twitter @Tereza Pultarova. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and up Facebook.

Watch Nasa Unveil Landing Sites For Human Return To The Moon

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