A NASA official assures that astronauts will be living and working on the Moon by the end of the decade. A little air of “For all Mankind”?
In an interview with the BBCHoward Hu, head of the lunar spacecraft program Orion, claims that humans could live on the moon for more or less long periods of time before 2030. They would have habitats to live in and rovers to move around during their work. .
“They will have habitats, they will have rovers on the ground. We will send people to the surface [de la Lune]and they go there to live and do research.”
This statement follows the good news of the Orion mission which has today finished circumnavigating the Moon and is beginning its journey back to Earth. The models present will have been able to record all the physical constraints that real humans will undergo once in the ship. “We are going back to the moon. We are working on a sustainable program and this is the vehicle that will transport the people who will take us back to the moon“, he argues.
The fiction of “For all Mankind“may well be caught up in reality since the goal of the Artemis program is in particular the construction of a lunar gateway, a space station where astronauts can live and work in orbit around the moon before flying off further into our system. solar.”Moving forward is really to Mars“, conclu Howard Hu. “It’s a bigger stepping stone, a two-year journey…“