12/12/2023 0 Comments Science news moon village![]() However, the cost of flights and transportation to the Moon are enormous 1 kg of loading capacity costs approx. NASA plans to send people to Mars from a lunar base. Russia announced plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 and establish a permanent robotically-operated base there in 2027–2032. China is planning to land and return lunar soil samples by 2020. India intends to continue with efforts with a space station program and possibly a crewed lunar landing. On 11 April 2019 the first Israeli mission-and the first privately funded-lunar landing attempt crashed on the surface. All crewed and uncrewed soft landings had taken place on the near side of the Moon, until 3 January 2019, when the Chinese Chang’e 4 spacecraft made the first landing on the far side of the Moon. and Russia, but also Japan, Europe, India, and China. Until now, there have been six crewed landings between 19 and numerous uncrewed landings-not only from the U.S. ![]() This marked a major step forward in human endeavor and achievement. Apollo 11 was the first mission to land human beings on the Moon, on 20 July 1969, exactly 50 years ago. ![]() But ten years and many successful and unsuccessful attempts later, the U.S. It was the first human-made object on the moon. On 13 September 1959, nearly 60 years ago, the Soviet Union’s Luna 2 mission successfully reached the surface of the Moon. Hype and interest in the Moon is growing again, partly thanks to a very special anniversary coming up this weekend. A longtime writer for, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel six-part series coming in November. ![]() Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," to be published by National Geographic this October. "One driver of this renewed interest in the moon is to assess the economic feasibility of using lunar resources for sustaining human surface-exploration activities," the brochure states.ĭata from recent moon-orbiting missions and new analyses of lunar material brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts "show that the moon is the closest place to Earth where we can find clues to the history of the solar system, including that of the early Earth and of the formation of the Earth-moon system," the brochure notes.Īdditionally, insights into the environment in which life began on Earth nearly 4 billion years ago "could be preserved in previously unexplored areas, such as the poles, the highlands and the far side of the moon," the brochure explains.Īttendees of the recent moon-exploration meeting gave Wörner's moon village vision a positive reception, according to the brochure. The brochure draws upon findings from a conference called "International Symposium on Moon 2020-2030: A New Era of Human and Robotic Exploration," which was held in December at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. That view is expressed in a new ESA brochure now in circulation. Lunar exploration will likely get a big boost in the next decade, thanks to rising interest in the moon in Europe and other parts of the world. ESA’S Johann-Dietrich Wörner backs development of an international "moon village." (Image credit: Courtesy Space Foundation/Tom Kimmell Photography)
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