The Space Agency announced its Artemis Initiative to recreate the footprint on the moon “in readiness for the human colonization of Mars.”
NASA has announced this week that it plans to send a woman to the moon for the first time in 2024.
This week, the Space Agency shared the Artemis Proposal, explaining the first lunar mission to take a man and a first woman to Earth’s closest neighbor since 1972.
“Sending human explorers 250,000 miles to the Moon, then 140 million miles to Mars, requires ambitious sight, efficient program management, resources for current technology construction and project operations, and support from all corners of our nation as well as from our allies around the globe,” NASA claimed in the plan’s presentation, which clarified that the Agency has been using “fine-tuning” approaches to study the moon over the years.
NASA reported that the multi-pronged Artemis strategy reveals that it “focuses on achieving the target of an initial human landing by 2024 with appropriate technological risks while at the same time moving towards safe lunar exploration in the mid to late 2020s.”
The option for 2024 is not “arbitrary,” but rather “the most optimistic date possible, and our progress at the Moon and later at Mars will be focused on our national priorities and comprehensive capabilities,” NASA said.
The first modern lunar flight of NASA, Artemis 1, is scheduled for 2021 sans astronauts, and Artemis II is scheduled to fly with a crew in 2023. The goal of Artemis III is to land the first woman and a man on the moon in 2024.
“After Artemis III lands the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024, America will reveal a new degree of global space leadership,” NASA said in the Artemis proposal. “With the re-establishment of lunar exploration capabilities, NASA and the world will be able to create a permanent footprint on the lunar surface in preparation for the human discovery of Mars.”
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