Plan calls for a space station in the moon’s orbit, rovers to explore its surface, a...
NASA is hoping to avoid the farewell speeches by working with other nations and commercial companies to create a more permanent, sustainable lunar presence.
“The tricky word here is sustainable,” said John Logsdon, founder of George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute.. This, in some ways, has set the bar for longevity in space. “This is not a paper program anymore,” said Dan Hartman, the Gateway program manager based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. “There is flight hardware being built.”Texas A&M tech could be the future of NASA's spacesuits, using full-body scanners to make custom gear
International partners and commercial companies are also contributing to this next phase. Europe, Canada and Japan are building components for the Gateway., unpressurized rovers and landing systems that will deliver people and cargo to the moon. Japan is interested in building the pressurized rover. Cernan had launched into space a week earlier with Harrison “Jack” Schmitt and Ron Evans. Their mission landed in the Taurus-Littrow highlands and valley area on Dec. 11; Cernan and Schmitt explored the moon’s craters and mountains while Evans stayed in orbit.
So when NASA’s budget was reduced to fit alongside other national priorities – NASA received 4 percent of the federal budget during the Apollo Program, and it has received less than 1 percent since the early 1970s – the agency ended lunar landings earlier than planned to focus on its future, said Logsdon with George Washington University.“The legacy of Apollo and Apollo 17 is the foundation that we laid, that my colleagues and I laid, for advancing further,” Schmitt said in the podcast.
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