According to US media reports, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on the 9th local time that it would postpone the manned moon landing plan until 2025.
NASA's new plan is reportedly delayed from the 2024 moon landing goal previously set by the Trump administration.
NASA Director Nelson told reporters on a conference call on the 9th: "The goal set by the Trump administration for astronauts to land on the moon in 2024 is technically unworkable. ”
At the end of 2017, then-US President Trump announced that he would let American astronauts return to the moon and eventually go to Mars, planning to send the first female astronaut and 1 male astronaut to the moon in 2024. This re-moon landing program is known as the "Artemis" program.
Artemis I, which was scheduled to be executed by the end of the year, was postponed to February 2022, the first step towards the U.S. return to the moon. Nielsen said Artemis II is scheduled to be completed in May 2024, while Artemis III, where astronauts landed on the moon, is scheduled to be completed by 2025.
In April 2021, NASA signed a contract with SpaceX and approved $2.9 billion for the development and production of two lunar spacecraft. However, SpaceX's competitors Blue Origin and Dynetics immediately protested and sued the cooperation, and NASA suspended the cooperation with SpaceX in the meantime.
Nielsen also blamed the delay in the moon landing plan on the lawsuit in part on the 9th. He said the lawsuit interrupted NASA's cooperation with SpaceX for "nearly 7 months."
Last week, a federal court ruling ended the dispute, and Blue Origin lost the lawsuit against NASA.
Source: China News Network
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