This year, Russia is planning an unmanned mission to the moon.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — Many phenomena related to space will occur in 2022. The following are some of the events related to space 2022 that caught our attention CBC, Sunday (2/1).
Back to the moon
The last human to set foot on the moon nearly 50 years ago was in December 1972. However, the American Space Agency (NASA) has plans to return, with international support from the Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency. The first phase is scheduled to take place in 2022.
The new program is called Artemis. This mission will take humans back to the moon, including the first woman. But the whole program will be carried out in stages.
On the Artemis 1 mission, an unmanned flight around the moon was planned for launch in the spring of 2022, after several delays.
Meanwhile, the mission Artemis-2 The first crewed flight to orbit the moon is scheduled for May 2024. There will be Canadian astronauts on the mission.
This year will also be the year of the strongest rocket launch since the Saturn 5, which first took humans to the moon.
Russia is also planning to go to the moon, by spacecraft Luna 25 they. It’s also not a manned mission, but the lander will be the first to return to the moon since 1976.
The spacecraft will land in the south polar region of the moon where it will collect data on ice permanently frozen beneath the surface. Luna 25 is planned to be launched in the spring.
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