On Monday, NASA announced the names of the crew that will travel to lunar orbit in November 2024. The mission called Artemis IIwill be the first manned to the natural satellite in more than 50 years.
In Open Micthe historian Cristobal Garcia-Huidobroreviewed the most important milestones of the space race, the initial leadership of the Soviet Union and the subsequent American triumph with Apollo 11 in 1969.
“The Russians were the first to place a satellite in orbit, that showed that they had greater power in those years,” recalled García-Huidobro.
On July 20, 1969, the United States managed to reach the Moon with the Apollo 11 mission: “This could be transmitted to the whole world thanks to Chile”indicated.
This is why García-Huidobro explained that “the moon was not looking at the United States, it was looking at Chile, for which a space monitoring station was built. This made it possible to take the televised signal to different countries of the world.“.
Within this new trip to the moon of the United States, the historian explained that “they are not going to descend on the moon, they are going to make an orbit. The total mission will last 10 days.” But he stressed that “on this mission there will be an African American, and for the first time we are going to have a woman in the mission. All the times before it was just men.”
Humanity will return to the moon in 2024: the story of the space race.