"Artemis" ( eng . Artemis) - NASA's program to return the Americans to the moon
The project will be attended by US private companies and the European Space Agency ( ESA ). One of the goals of the program is to send “the first woman and the next man” to the moon (“the first woman and the next man”; a reference to the fact that there were already men on the moon under the Apollo program). The Artemis program will become a step towards the creation of a permanently inhabited settlement on the Moon, and will create the foundation for the development of Mars .
History
In May 2019, NASA administrator Jim Brydenstein announced the launch of the Artemis program [1] (named after the Greek goddess of the hunt , Apollo 's sister). The program is divided into two stages: The first stage includes landing on the Moon in 2024 and includes, but not limited to: a manned orbital flyby of the Moon Artemis-2 , the start of construction of the international near-moon station Gateway , a landing of the crew with the first woman on the moon in the mission of Artemis-3 . The second stage of the program is flights to the moon and the creation of lunar infrastructure. For the summer of 2019, the program did not receive adequate funding. It is planned that manned flights will be carried out using LV SLS and Orion spacecraft .
Program logo announced on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the landing of the man on the moon
See also
Moon exploration
- ↑ The new US lunar program was called "Artemis" . Russian newspaper. Date of treatment July 21, 2019.