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NASA intends to send a lot of people to the moon-and to Mars-in the coming decade.
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The agency has outlined a three-phase plan for lunar infrastructure and says the effort will serve as a proving ground for future missions to Mars.
As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons between Apollo and NASA’s new Artemis program are inevitable. The world’s first lunar visitors orbited the moon on Apollo 8.
When a reactor’s radioactive core undergoes nuclear fission, its atoms split and release heat, which then turns the water to steam. That steam rushes through the machine at high pressure, spinning turbines to generate electricity destined for the grid, according to the association. In space, the process gets trickier.
Nasa hails "flawless" engine burn to propel the spacecraft to the far side of the Moon, taking humans out of Earth's orbit for the first time since 1972.