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In the last few years there’s been a new space race going and there are a number of projects that are quite advanced which will be part of a maned return to the moon in the mid 2020s and a permanent settlement on the moon by the end of the decade.
Right now the main contenders are NASA’s Artemis Program, which is set to touch down on the moon by 2024, SpaceX’s “Starship”(whose prototype achieved it’s first un-tethered demonstration flight last week), set to fly around the moon by 2023 in a mission called “Dear Moon”, a multinational project for the first moon base called “Moon Village” which will use hardware from several countries and companies, such as NASA, ESA (European Union), JAXA (Japan), CNSA (China) as well as private companies such as ULA (United Launch Alliance) and Blue Origin’s “Blue Moon” lander.
Also, right now, ISRO (India) has a lander and rover on the way to the moon and are planning their own manned expedition by the 2030s and a German private team called PTScientists are planning to send their own robotic rover to take a look at the Apollo 17 landing site in early 2021 and a sample return mission by 2025, both to be flown by ESA’s new Ariane 6 rocket.
Earlier this year an Israeli private company managed sent their “Beresheet” lander all the way to the moon, but it failed part-way through the landing and crashed… S
o yeah, moon settlement is coming, but space is both hard and costly.
Promises made, promises broken; Imy learned to late her Daddy was jokin’
Sighs what dad did not know was she would also live to see a sizable amount of people who think the earth is flat.
Actually, it’s not as far away as you think.
In the last few years there’s been a new space race going and there are a number of projects that are quite advanced which will be part of a maned return to the moon in the mid 2020s and a permanent settlement on the moon by the end of the decade.
Right now the main contenders are NASA’s Artemis Program, which is set to touch down on the moon by 2024, SpaceX’s “Starship”(whose prototype achieved it’s first un-tethered demonstration flight last week), set to fly around the moon by 2023 in a mission called “Dear Moon”, a multinational project for the first moon base called “Moon Village” which will use hardware from several countries and companies, such as NASA, ESA (European Union), JAXA (Japan), CNSA (China) as well as private companies such as ULA (United Launch Alliance) and Blue Origin’s “Blue Moon” lander.
Also, right now, ISRO (India) has a lander and rover on the way to the moon and are planning their own manned expedition by the 2030s and a German private team called PTScientists are planning to send their own robotic rover to take a look at the Apollo 17 landing site in early 2021 and a sample return mission by 2025, both to be flown by ESA’s new Ariane 6 rocket.
Earlier this year an Israeli private company managed sent their “Beresheet” lander all the way to the moon, but it failed part-way through the landing and crashed… S
o yeah, moon settlement is coming, but space is both hard and costly.