Breaking news: For the first time since the Apollo era, NASA on Monday named a crew of astronauts for a lunar expedition. The astronauts will fly around the moon in a mission that would precede the first human landing there since 1972.
With the naming of the crew, NASA’s Artemis campaign now has human faces attached to it — some of the best and brightest of the astronaut corps — which the space agency hopes will help solidify its support among members of Congress as it prepares for its next flights.Those missions are months away, however, and likely to be delayed. And the attention of Congress and the American people is often fickle, especially when it comes to space exploration.
But so far, NASA has, for the first time in decades, been able to build momentum for a deep-space exploration campaign. Last month, the White House proposed a, a 7 percent increase over this year, with increased funding for Artemis. The Artemis program is also designed to be more politically resilient with the participation, and investment, of other countries, the growing commercial space industry and more ambitious mission objectives.
Unlike the Apollo missions, in which 12 men walked on the lunar surface and then came home, the Artemis program aims to buildon and around the moon. It is planning to assemble a space station, known as Gateway, in lunar orbit that astronauts would visit on their way to the moon’s surface. Instead of returning to the moon’s equatorial region, NASA is now focused on the lunar South Pole, where there is water in the form of ice in its permanently shadowed craters.
As part of the Artemis program, NASA has said the first woman and the first person would walk on the moon as it seeks to create a more diverse astronaut corps. The Artemis II mission would be somewhat similar to Apollo 8, in which Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders
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