Space / 22 November 2022
Looking forward to a lunar lifestyle
We often talk about a sea or tree-change, but a celestial-change? The idea might not be out of this world after a senior NASA official said he reckons we’ll be blasting off to live and work on the moon by the end of this decade. Howard Hu, head of the Orion lunar spacecraft program, says “we’re going to have people living there” with full-blown habitats and rovers to support their work. But before you get too excited, it sounds like scientists will get first dibs on the lunar lifestyle, with Hu saying those capable of “doing science” will be dispatched to our only natural satellite. His comments follow last week’s launch of the Artemis 1 rocket, which is conducting a 25-day uncrewed mission to test its systems for the next generation of human spaceflight. But if you’re Norwegian, you could be forgiven for thinking aliens might be coming here first…
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