It is the UNITED states’s goal to send astronauts to the Moon within the next five years, and at least one will be a woman.
this is the message Tuesday from the us vice-president, Mike Pence, during a speech at the US’s National Space Council.
– It is this administration’s policy and the UNITED states’policy to american astronauts return to the Moon within the next five years, says Mike Pence during the speech in Huntsville, in the state of Alabama.
Trumps the administration has several times in the past expressed the desire to send astronauts to both the Moon and to Mars.
According to astrophysicist at DTU Space Michael Linden Vørnle is Pences’s announcement was “certainly realistic” and a preliminary culmination of several years of work with the u.s. space agency, Nasa.
Nasa has for several years developed new rockets and a new spaceship in collaboration with the European in general.
He refers to then-president George Bush in 2004 also announced that the UNITED states in the near future it again was to send astronauts to the Moon.
– You can say that the schedule does not quite have kept. But are the necessary resources to present, so it can easily be done, says Michael Linden Vørnle.
Mike Pence stresses, furthermore, that the first woman on the Moon must be from the UNITED states.
– The first woman and the next man on the Moon-will both be american astronauts were sent with american rockets, from american soil, ” says Pence.
Recently, there went the people on the Moon, in 1972. Three years earlier so that millions of people on tv, as Neil Armstrong put the first footprints on the surface of Earth’s nearest neighbor.
According to Michael Linden Vørnle is the motivation to once again send humans to the Moon does not “gather stenprøver and plant a flag”.
– We must use it as a platform for the development and testing of the technology both to be on the Moon but also to future missions to Mars, he says.
Among the more long-term goal is to get set up månebaser, which will make it easier to explore our solar system in the future. Among other things, the Moon’s low gravity significantly reduce the need for fuel.
the National Space Council, U.S. national council for the room, was set up in 1958 under a different name. It was closed in 1993, but president Donald Trumps administration has restored it.
Mike Pence is the chairman of the council, where the director of Nasa also sit on the table.
the Director of Nasa, among others, are also in the national council.
