If all goes well, in just a couple of short years humans will return to the Moon for the first time in over half a century.
As NASA gears up to send teams of people to the lunar south pole byWe now have a better idea, with NASA revealing 13 candidate landing regions for Artemis III; the mission that will finally carry that precious human cargo.
Each of the 13 potential landing regions is within 6 degrees latitude of the lunar south pole, a significant target of future exploration. This is a region of the Moon that no one has ever landed, and poses a significantly greater technical challenge than landings based towards the equator. For this reason, two uncrewed stages of the Artemis mission – Artemis I and Artemis II – must succeed before humans can safely launch.
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