The Artemis mission is preparing astronauts for this lofty goal.
Humans are on course to be living and even working on the moon by 2030, a NASA officialHoward Hu, the head of the U.S. agency's Orion lunar spacecraft program, said astronauts could stay on the celestial object for extended periods of time by the end of this decade."Certainly, in this decade, we are going to have people living for durations, depending on how long we will be on the surface. They will have habitats, they will have rovers on the ground," he told the.
The mission saw three fully suited mannequins aboard the aircraft that will now measure the stresses and strains of the Artemis 1 mission providing key data for the future of the ambitious project."It's the first step we're taking to long-term deep-space exploration, for not just the United States but for the world. I think this is a historic day for Nasa, but it's also a historic day for all the people who love human space flight and deep-space exploration," Hu said.
If the mission proves successful, it will pave the way for subsequent Artemis 2 and 3 flights, both of which will feature crewed missions to the moon. The Artemis 3 mission, expected to launch in 2026, will witness the return of humans to the surface of the moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in December of 1972.
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