NASA has chosen SpaceX to bring the first woman and the next man on the moon. In fact, he entrusted the company of Elon Musk – who had recently proclaimed himself Emperor of Mars – the 2.8 billion dollar project, destined to bring the first commercial vehicle on lunar soil (called Lander). The contract was signed as part of the Artemis program, which aims to return to the Moon by 2024. The arrival of the first woman, observes NASA, will be only the first step towards a change that it plans to bring to the surface of our satellite soon. even the first black person.
The Artemis program predicts that to bring four astronauts into the lunar orbit will be the new great launcher of NASA, the Space Launch System (Sls) on which the Orion capsule will be integrated. Once in orbit around the moon, two of the astronauts they will leave Orion to move to the SpaceX lander, it Human Landing System (Hls) that after more than half a century from the last mission of the Apollo program – of which the goddess Artemis, name of the new program, was twin sister in the cosmogony of Ancient Greece – it will bring a human being back to the lunar soil. According to NASA’s plans, this first mission requires astronauts to stay on the moon for a week, after which the lander will take them back on board Orion, where they will join their colleagues to return to Earth.
Meanwhile, two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut have landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan in boron of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz Ms-17 after spending approx 6 months in orbit on the International Space Station (Iss). These are the Russians Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Kate Rubins of NASA. The capsule landed at 6.55 am Italian time 150 km south-east of Zhezkazgan, in central Kazakhstan.
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