Solopos.com, JAKARTA-NASA’s plan to send astronauts to the moon is expected to be delayed because SpaceX is not ready.
The United States Aeronautics and Space Administration or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration / NASA plans to send its astronauts back to set foot on the lunar surface in 2025 via the Artemis III mission. But SpaceX, the company engaged in the space sector owned by Elon Musk, which is the contract holder for the mission and said it was not ready.
Collecting news CNAthe news was officially announced by the space agency on Tuesday (8/8/2023).
Associate administrator for NASA’s Explorations System Development Mission Directorate, Jim Free, said the agency had the possibility of launching a different mission because the landing of Artemis III on the moon could potentially be delayed.
“If it wasn’t ready in time, we might have flown a different mission,” Free was quoted as saying Bisnis.com on Wednesday (9/8/2023).
Under the Artemis program, NASA has 3 series of flights.
First, an unmanned rocket flight orbits the moon in 2022 in the Artemis I mission.
Second, a rocket flight with a crew around the moon which is planned for November 2022 on the Artemis II mission.
Third, the Artemis III mission, which has been prepared to land its astronauts on the moon since the last time it was carried out 53 years ago in 1972 via the Apollo 17 mission.
The Starship rocket prototype for Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, which won the contract for the Artemis mission, is said to be far from complete.
During a cross-orbit flight test last April, the launched Starship ended tragically exploding thousands of feet above the earth’s surface. NASA is said to be issuing an official statement regarding the continuation of the Artemis III mission in the near future.
This article was published on Bisnis.com with the title “SpaceX Elon Musk Is Not Ready, NASA Postpones Mission Sending Humans to the Moon”
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