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"Final preparations are underway for NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first
crewed mission around the Moon for more than 50 years. Four astronauts, three
men and one woman, will spend 10 days aboard the Orion spacecraft, going
further into space than any other humans as they orbit the Moon and return to
Earth.
Issues caused by a fuel leak while testing the Space Launch System rocket used
for the mission meant launch windows in February and March were missed. Now
NASA is targeting early April for launch.
The mission is the next step of the Artemis programme, which plans to land
astronauts back to the Moon by 2028. China has its own programme targeting a
full crewed mission to the lunar surface by 2030.
In this episode of
The Conversation Weekly podcast we speak to Scott Pace,
director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University about
why NASA is sending people back round the Moon. Pace worked in space policy for
the George W. Bush Administration, followed by a stint at NASA before his
appointment as the executive secretary of the National Space Council during the
first Trump administration, where he worked on the launch of the Artemis
programme."
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