NASA’s plan to get to the moon, and then a mission to Mars

The new leader of the Jared Isekman during the Senate hearing said the space agency was planning a mission to Mars, as well as the moon. On Sunday, May 11, the hill wrote the hill.

“The moon will remain an important link, both from the scientific and economic and safe perspective. In immediate plans, the mission of Artemis II (flying around the moon) and Artemis III (landing). The Orion Capsule, the SLS missile and the revised starship from Spacex will be used. Commercial, “he knew.

The publication explains that the scientific interest in the moon is due to the fact that its surface is an archive of solar system history. And its reverse side can be a fine platform for a radio telescope protected from ground signals.

The moon also aroused interest as a resource resources -water, helium -3, rare soil and industrial elements.

“Their labor in the area can provide orbital infrastructure needs,” experts said.

However, there is another political motivation – competition in China, which by 2035 wants to build a base on the South Pole of the moon.

“The United States is trying to avoid Chinese monopoly, integration -including efforts with partners: Japan, Canada, EU and India,” the report said.

Remember, on March 2, the Blue Ghost Apparatus of the American Developer Firefly Aerospace reached the moon. The module has helped NASA collect unique data in the heat stream from the inner layers of the moon.