2023-12-06 21:35:18
In his permanent space battle against China for the conquest of the Moon, USA just officially announced that will send a spacecraft to the Earth’s satellite in January 2024, this is 50 years after the last one Apollo mission.
He Apollo 17 was the last mission of the program Apollo developed by NASA and took off the December 7, 1972marking a historical milestone in the space exploration and closing an era of lunar exploration.
“The United States is in a space race with China to return to the Moon, and we will get there first“, he claimed Bill Nelson, director of NASA, through a press release.
“The mission is scheduled for January 25, 2024 with the lander called Peregrine what will not take passengers on board. We are looking for private capital to finance what will be the world’s first private mission to successfully land on the lunar surface”he added.
The ship will consist of a lander which was specially designed and manufactured by the American company Astroboticwhat will carry instruments to study the lunar environment in anticipation of NASA’s manned Artemis missions.
Although takeoff is scheduled for December 24 from FloridaUnited States, aboard the inaugural flight of the new rocket from the industrial group ULA, named Vulcan Centaur, the probe will have to wait until January 25 to try to land on the lunar surface, so that the light conditions at the destination are adequate.
For his part, the descent of the ship will be carried out completely autonomous and without any type of human intervention, although it will be controlled and monitored closely from the control center of the company in charge of this ambitious space mission.
It should be remembered that if well since the end of the Apollo mission no other mission has taken humans to the MoonNASA is working against the clock to try to reverse this situation through the Artemis Program which, among its main objectives, seeks to power establish human presence sustainably on the Moon.
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