NASA's moon-landing astronauts will explore 1 of these regions
, so the discussions have been held with the company as well as government personnel.
Moreover, site selection is complicated because NASA can't simply choose a site and move on: None of the 13 regions are constantly accessible, so the mission's launch date will determine where the astronauts can touch down. has already provided the data that mission personnel need, according to Jacob Bleacher, chief exploration scientist at NASA. In fact, he said that at this point in LRO's mission, the spacecraft is in an orbit from which it can't observe these regions at all.
Whichever site Artemis 3 astronauts explore, their experience will be very different from that of the 12 men who have walked on the moon to date.
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