Following in the footsteps of the Apollo program, this 21st century lunar campaign could return humans to the moon’s surface as soon as 2025
In just the next few years, NASA aims to land the first astronauts on the moon since 1972, including the first woman to voyage to the lunar surface. Following in the footsteps of the Apollo program, this 21st century lunar campaign, called Artemis, could return humans to the moon’s surface as soon as 2025.
The Space Launch System rocket for Artemis I inside the Vertical Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 322-foot-tall rocket was designed to launch the Orion space capsule on a new series of missions to the moon. are used in the Artemis program? Each SLS rocket will also use two massive solid-fuel boosters attached on either side of the core stage. Combined, the rocket will generate 8.8 million pounds of thrust at launch, 15 percent more than the Apollo program’s Saturn V. The rocket’s upper stage will detach from the core stange once it reaches space and fire its own engines to send Orion on its way moonward.
Artemis III, the mission meant to return people to the lunar surface, will launch no sooner than 2025. This four-astronaut mission will begin much like Artemis II, but when Orion enters orbit around the moon, it will dock with a waiting Starship vehicle from SpaceX. Two members of the crew will then use Starship to land on the moon’s surface near the lunar south pole. Those astronauts will spend about 6.
However, it’s not yet known whether the water inside this dust is plentiful or easy to extract. To find out if the water in the region is usable, NASA plans to send
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