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To the moon and beyond: what 2022 holds for space travel
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 3054" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/to-the-moon-and-beyond-what-2022-holds-for-space-travel" target="_blank"><strong>To the moon and beyond: what 2022 holds for space travel - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>From lunar missions to anti-asteroid defence systems, there are plenty of exciting scientific developments to look forward to</strong></p><p></p><p>This year promises to be an important one for space exploration, with several major programmes reaching the launch pad over the next 12 months. The US is to return to the moon, undertaking a set of missions intended to establish a lunar colony there in a few years. China is expected to complete its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/04/astronauts-at-chinas-new-space-station-conduct-first-spacewalk" target="_blank">Tiangong space station</a> while Europe and Russia will attempt to land spacecraft on Mars, having failed at every previous attempt. India, South Korea and Japan are also scheduled to put a number of missions into space.</p><p></p><p>Particular interest is going to focus on Nasa’s mighty new <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html" target="_blank">space launch system</a> (SLS). This is the most powerful rocket it has ever designed and has been built to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond as part of the agency’s <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/" target="_blank">Artemis</a> deep space exploration programme. With these missions, Nasa intends to reopen the solar system to investigation by humans – rather than robot probes – and regularly carry astronauts to the lunar surface.</p><p></p><p>The programme’s first launch is scheduled for February when an SLS rocket – standing more than 300ft high – will carry an unmanned Orion capsule on a trajectory that will enter a highly elliptical orbit round the moon. At its closest, the spaceship will sweep within 62 miles of the lunar surface before soaring 40,000 miles above it, a distance that will take it further from Earth than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 3054, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/to-the-moon-and-beyond-what-2022-holds-for-space-travel'][B]To the moon and beyond: what 2022 holds for space travel - The Guardian[/B][/URL] [B]From lunar missions to anti-asteroid defence systems, there are plenty of exciting scientific developments to look forward to[/B] This year promises to be an important one for space exploration, with several major programmes reaching the launch pad over the next 12 months. The US is to return to the moon, undertaking a set of missions intended to establish a lunar colony there in a few years. China is expected to complete its [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/04/astronauts-at-chinas-new-space-station-conduct-first-spacewalk']Tiangong space station[/URL] while Europe and Russia will attempt to land spacecraft on Mars, having failed at every previous attempt. India, South Korea and Japan are also scheduled to put a number of missions into space. Particular interest is going to focus on Nasa’s mighty new [URL='https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html']space launch system[/URL] (SLS). This is the most powerful rocket it has ever designed and has been built to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond as part of the agency’s [URL='https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/']Artemis[/URL] deep space exploration programme. With these missions, Nasa intends to reopen the solar system to investigation by humans – rather than robot probes – and regularly carry astronauts to the lunar surface. The programme’s first launch is scheduled for February when an SLS rocket – standing more than 300ft high – will carry an unmanned Orion capsule on a trajectory that will enter a highly elliptical orbit round the moon. At its closest, the spaceship will sweep within 62 miles of the lunar surface before soaring 40,000 miles above it, a distance that will take it further from Earth than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown. [/QUOTE]
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