NASA sent the first man on the moon 51 years ago, and now finally they are putting the first woman on the moon.
They have officially declared the Artemis program which will cost about $28 billion for Phase 1 of the mission.
Mission is named Artemis, for a beautiful reason
The mission is named Artemis after the Greek goddess of the moon, who was the twin sister of Apollo the Sun god. It’s also interesting that the NASA’s first manned missions to the Moon were named Apollo, and the Apollo 11 was the first mission that succeeded in taking men to the Moon. Now the Artemis missions will be taking women to the moon.
So far now, only 12 people have landed on the moon and all are American men.
“The last person walked on the Moon in 1972. No woman has ever walked on the lunar surface.”
Surprisingly, it was initiated by Donald Trump who probably didn’t know what he was doing
It’s been 3 years since Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1, which included ideas about a “Space Force” along with NASA partnering up with the US military to further intimidate and terrorize the socialist countries from space. But it also included ideas on sending human missions to Moon and other planets again.
The plan is to send the first women to the moon by 2024.
NASA has spent nearly 12 billion dollars on its Space Launch System that is being built by Boeing – the system consists of four booster rockets and the Orion spacecraft that will be traveling to the moon and back.
How will they send women to the Moon?
NASA will launch Artemis I without any astronauts, that will take two test flights around the moon.
After that, they will send many robots to the moon, which will be taking dozens of science tools and machines.
Artemis II will be launched in 2023, which will have women astronauts who will be fitted with modern spacesuits much more advanced that the spacesuits of 50 years ago. And then Artemis III will actually land women astronauts on the surface of the moon.
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