NASA’s upcoming Artemis Moon program can be seen as practice for an eventual manned mission to Mars.
The strategy for accomplishing this daunting task was detailed in a revised list of planning goals for Artemis and beyond.
On September 20, NASA released a plan to send humans to Mars in the not-too-distant future. Under NASA’s “Moon to Mars” strategy, the space agency will use technology and skills gained from missions to the Moon to launch a manned mission to Mars. This historic mission to the Red Planet is tentatively scheduled to launch in the late 2030s or early 2040s. The recently released list of goals includes “multidisciplinary science, transportation and habitation, lunar and Martian infrastructure, operations and a new domain: recurring principles.”
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The document breaks down the goals into five categories, recurring principles, science, infrastructure, transportation and housing, and operations.
“We are helping to manage humanity’s global movement into deep space,” said Jim Free, NASA’s associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate. “The goals will help ensure that a long-term strategy for solar system exploration can maintain constancy of purpose. and weather policy and funding changes.”
According to a NASA press release, the goals reflect a “maturing strategy” to develop a plan for “sustained human presence and exploration throughout the solar system.”
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