Will there be a moon landing in 2024?

2024 is not going to happen Today the agency has officially changed this lunar landing deadline to “no earlier than 2025,” Nelson said. In April, NASA awarded the Human Landing System (HLS) contract to build the agency’s new moon lander to SpaceX.

Why do we need lunar Gateway?

The planned lunar Gateway space station will house crews for between one and three months so they can perform a series of ambitious jobs: to conduct science experiments further away from Earth for long periods of time; to support missions on the surface; and perhaps to even do far-out engineering work such as …

Why are we going to the Moon again?

NASA is going to the Moon with commercial and international partners to explore faster and explore more together. The Moon will provide a proving ground to test technologies and resources that will take humans to Mars and beyond, including building a sustainable, reusable architecture.

Who was first woman in space?

cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova
So said cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, (pictured left) who made history as the first woman in space aboard the then-Soviet Union’s Vostok 6 spacecraft in 1963. In the nearly six decades since Tereshkova first ventured into space, 64 more women have followed suit, albeit in fits and starts.

How big is the Moon?

1,079.6 mi
Moon/Radius

What was the outcome of Apollo 13?

Apollo 13 was NASA’s third moon-landing mission, but the astronauts never made it to the lunar surface. During the mission’s dramatic series of events, an oxygen tank explosion almost 56 hours into the flight forced the crew to abandon all thoughts of reaching the moon.

What did we do on the Moon?

A total of 12 astronauts walked on the moon. The astronauts conducted scientific research there. They studied the lunar surface. They collected moon rocks to bring back to Earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blYdnDpM3yk