NASA bases on the Moon

The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) announced yesterday it will build a permanent international base on one of the polar regions of the Moon, serving scientific research and serving as a basis for the mission. bring people to Mars.

NASA will choose a ' distant place on the Moon ' after short expeditions in the 1960s. The Apollo then circled the center of the Moon, however NASA decided to go to the polar regions due to they are the best permanent settlements. Currently NASA is willing to welcome other countries to join this project.

NASA yesterday announced plans to return and build a base on the Moon (Photo: TTO)

According to Scott Horowitz, who is in charge of NASA's exploration missions, to the Moon, NASA will use Orion probes and a universal probe to land anywhere and start building a base. .

In 2004, after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, President Bush announced plans to bring astronauts back to the Moon by 2020, followed by plans for Mars.

Last year, NASA said it had spent $ 104 billion on the first return to the Moon, but NASA officials yesterday declined to confirm that the Moon program would permanently " consume " a higher cost. . They just said this cost is within the budget of NASA.

NASA's Moon Plan is expected as follows:

2009 : Initial test of one of the spacecraft to the Moon.

2014 : the first manned test flight with Orion, however, this ship has not landed on the Moon.

2020 : the first flight of 4 astronauts to the Moon.

For four years, the Moon base will not be built for long-term visits, so astronauts will only stay there about a week each time on the Moon. Then, according to NASA's vision, humans can live on the Moon for 6 months.

NASA also hopes the Moon's oxygen, hydrogen and other resources can be used to provide this base.

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