First Moon landing in 50 years: Details on 2025 NASA mission
How Orion spacecraft looks like from the inside (photo: NASA)
In 2025, NASA will send a crew of 4 astronauts to the moon. This will be the first human landing on the Earth's satellite in the last half-century. The mission is planned to be carried out on the Orion spacecraft, writes Space.
What Orion spacecraft looks like
The Orion spacecraft will fly to the Moon as part of the Artemis 2 mission, which will launch no earlier than September 2025.
NASA says the Orion crew cabin is already installing protective rear envelope panels and insulation on the outside, as well as preparing Orion for vacuum testing this spring.
The Orion spacecraft has already been in space twice, but in uncrewed missions that did not have life support installed. At the end of 2022, the device went into the orbit of the Moon, and in 2014 into the orbit of the Earth.
This is what the Orion spacecraft looks like (photo: NASA)
Going to the Moon: NASA Commander Reid Wiseman, NASA Pilot Victor Glover, NASA Mission Specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen
The Great Artemis program aims to build a settlement on the south pole of the Moon to take advantage of the water resources that exist there.
More than 30 countries have signed NASA-led Artemis agreements to abide by the norms of peaceful space exploration and, in some cases, provide equipment for missions to the moon.
The landing on the moon should be carried out no earlier than September 2025 (photo: NASA)
To find out what the International Space Station looks like from the inside, check out this article.
