Artemis 3, another manned spaceflight including a moon landing, will follow about a year after Artemis 2. The Artemis program, named after the Greek moon goddess, aims to land a woman and a non-white person on the moon for the first time. time. The European Space Agency, ESA and space agencies from several other countries are participating in Artemis.
The last time anyone was on the Moon was the Apollo 17 mission about 50 years ago – the landing took place on December 11, 1972. Overall, the United States is the only country to date to have had twelve astronauts on the Moon on the Apollo missions. . Between 1969 and 1972.
Former European space chief Jan Werner told dpa that the moon is an important target for astronauts. However, the Artemis program was definitely a later development: not “moon back”, but “moon forward”: not four white American men on a mission, but examples of diversity: different skin colors, three men and a woman on the interior. Three Americans and one Canadian each. That’s what “Forward to the Moon” is about: no repetition, but something new, a diverse team.
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