If you are at least marginally interested in space, you must have heard about the Artemis program, i.e. the return of man to the moon. In recent days, NASA has released a plan to return a man to the moon, and although no major news has appeared in it, we have been shown a few details.
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The beginnings of the Artemis program date back to 2006, when the development of the Orion spacecraft began as part of the Constellation program. Although the program was canceled a few years later, the development of Orion continued. In 2011, work began on the Space Launch System (SLS) launch vehicle. Several sub-missions are to precede the landing on the Moon. In just a few months, the assembly of Orion and SLS is to begin at Cape Canaveral. In November next year, this assembly is to orbit the Moon (Artemis 1). In 2023, the same is to be done with astronauts (Artemis 2). At the same time, the first part of the Gateway station is to be launched to the Moon, which is to serve as a transfer station in the future. However, it will probably not be fully functional in 2024, so it will fly straight to the surface. The Artemis 3 crew is set to land on the Moon, the first since Apollo 17 in 1972. The crew will be on the surface for about a week and will step out two to four times. ProThe biggest problem so far is the lunar module. NASA has selected three companies for the final round of tendering: SpaceX, National Team and Dynetics.
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Such an ambitious plan requires a lot of money, which Congress must approve. Since there is no consensus, lawmakers are arguing about the budget. The longer this discussion lasts, the less likely it is that the 2024 deadline will be met. It is estimated that the Artemis program will swallow up to $2021 billion for the years 2025 to 28, with the development of the lunar module alone costing $16 billion. SLS and Orion are nearing completion and will require “only” $7,6 billion. The spacesuits should cost $500 million. The rest of the funds will then go to logistics, experiments, etc. However, the amount may not beoneimportant, as the budget does not include the construction of the Gateway station, which, according to NASA leaders, is important for creating a more permanent program for lunar exploration.
In order tooneis going to land the USA on the moon, so the USA needs functional toilets, functional space suits and to find the lost documentation of F1 engines from APPOLA…
They could still find the original tapes from the landing on the Moon :D :D
I don't believe that they were lost forever... only those who think they were lost, so they had them destroyed so that by proving the original motion picture it would not be found that it was not affected by cosmic radiation...