The new United States moon landing has been postponed by one year.
After the promises of Donald Trump, who had talked about a new conquest of the Earth's satellite in 2024, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, competing to grab the 3 billion dollar contract with NASA, the one to build the lunar landing module.
Eventually Space X, Tesla's patron company, won, but at the end of a long legal battle that delayed the project. Thus the head of the US space agency, Bill Nelson, was forced to acknowledge that man will not set foot on lunar soil before 2025.
"Unfortunately we lost seven months in arguing", complained Nelson, explaining how at the moment it is impossible to indicate a precise date and that NASA needs time to resume work on the Starship project with Space X, the one that will lead to the construction of the lander. to be used for Artemis missions.
Bezos had centered his case on the fact that Space X would not guarantee the same safety requirements as his Blue Origin, arguing that in the end, NASA had decided to award the contract to the highest bidder to make ends meet. All criticisms rejected by both Space X and the space agency.
And while December 2022 will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the last time man reached the moon with the Apollo 17 mission, Musk dreams big. With the Starship project, he looks beyond the Moon, aiming at an even more ambitious goal: to soon bring mankind to Mars and found a "colony" on the red planet. Indeed, the visionary of Silicon Valley has repeatedly said that he is convinced that this is the only way to give the human species a long-term survival horizon.
(Unioneonline / vl)
