In about two years, the American space agency NASA wants to land people on the moon again. She has now narrowed down the list of possible landing sites and selected nine possible locations.
The potential landing areas would all be in the satellite’s south pole region, where astronauts have never been before, NASA said on its website Monday.
“The moon’s south pole is a completely different environment than the one we landed in during the Apollo missions,” said NASA researcher Sarah Noble. “It gives us access to some of the oldest parts of the moon, as well as cold, shadowy areas that could contain water and other components. Each of these landing sites would allow us to do great research and make new discoveries.”
Permanent mouth base planted
With the ‘Artemis’ program, named after the Greek goddess of the moon, NASA wants to put people on the moon again – including the first non-white and the first woman. The long-term goal of ‘Artemis’ is to establish a permanent lunar base as a base for missions to Mars.
However, NASA had to postpone the manned lunar orbit “Artemis 2”, originally planned for November 2024, until September 2025 due to problems with the rocket and spacecraft, and the planned manned lunar landing “Artemis 3” until September 2026.
There is competition from China, which wants to put people on the moon by 2030. The last time humans were on the moon was in 1972 as part of the “Apollo 17” mission (pictured above).
Source: Krone
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