PROJECT ARTEMIS

NASA`S FAKE RETURN TO 

THE MOON

By

Søren Nielsen

2019.

On Monday, May 13 2019 NASA declared: "We are going to the Moon to stay" by 2024.

It`s an exciting announcement, the return to a place, humans haven`t set foot on in more than 45 years.

When I hear such a statement from NASA, then I know that they is about to steal money from the American people again, to make a fake Moon Landing AGAIN.

They figure that it's going to cost the American people somewhere between 20 to 30 billions dollar to send a man back to The Moon

But I'll come back to that in Part 2, where I compare the first Moon landing and the new Moon landing.

And why it has been moved up to 2024 and not 2028, because I know why it is?

That is because of  the 400-meter-wide "Apophis" will pass roughly 30,000 kilometers from Earth on Friday April 13, 2029, which will only come as bad news if it hit Earth, but they don`t know.

But back to the story...

A serious goal that will test the ability of technology and engineering, as well as the bravery of the men and women who will carry out this task.

But we`ve also heard announcements like this before, many times.

How will the mission come together? What`s are the risks? What`s new this time?

The White House has been working on its plans to send humans to The Moon for several years now, pushed forward by US Vice President Mike Pence and NASA`s new administrator Jim Bridenstine.

The original plan was to send crewed missions to the Moon by 2028. And then several weeks ago, the target date of 2024 was floated, and it was met by skepticism, concren, and a little excitement.

Returning to the Moon, would be amazing. A serious goal, and the next step in becoming a space-faring civilization.

But we`ve heard sweeping goals like this before. We`re going to Mars, we`re going back to the Moon, we`re sending humans to an asteroid. We`re building a space station out by the Moon. And now, humans to the Moon by 2024.

One of the reasons for the 2024 deadline is to minimize the chance that, a new White House administration would switch goals.

What`s the plan?

The name for NASA`s new program is "Project Artemis", name after the Greek goodess and twin sister of Apollo.

Also the name of "Andy Weir`s" new book, about a city on the Moon. Coincidence?

This new program works with most of the existing hardware that`s currently under construction by NASA, but shuffles the schedule around a bit.

The original strategy was to first construct the Gatway in Lunar space using the enormous Space Launch System. (SLS)

Future missions would carry humans in the Orion spacecraft to the Gateway, which they could then, use as a platform for sending astroauts down to the surface.

Under this strategy, the first astronaut would set foot on the Moon in 2028.

The new "Artemis" plan pushes the construction of the Gateway back several years, building one core module by 2022, and then using this as the stepping stone back to the Moon by 2024.

Here`s the new schedule: Over the course of 2019, NASA is going to partner with nine US Companies to deliver payloads to the Moon.

As early as this year, the first missions could start sending new science instruments and technology to the Lunar surface. These commercial partnerships will continue over the years as NASA, continues its Lunar exploration beyond 2024.

In 2020, NASA`s Exploration Mission-1 will launch. This will be an uncrewed flight of the Space Launch System carrying an Orion Spacecraft into an orbit near to the Moon.

Then in 2022 will be Exploration Mission-2. Another launch of the Space Launch System, carrying astronauts on a mission around the Moon, for the first time in over 50 years. (WHY?).

Later in 2022, a commercial partner like "United Launch Alliance", "SpaceX" or "Blue Origin" will launch the first module for the Gateway: "The power and propulsion element.".

It`ll have a solar electric propulsion system and provide power and communications for the astronauts.

In 2023 a rover will be sent to the lunar pole, to search for whater-ice mixed into the regolith at the Moon`s permanently shadowed craters. (Again WHY?).

This will provide more information, so that future astronauts will be able to live off the land, turning water ice into rocket fule, ait to breathe and water to drink.

Finally, in 2024 on the third launch of the Space Launch System, humans will return to the Moon. They`ll stop in at the Gateway, and then take a lunar lander down to the surface near the Moon`s south pole.

Over the next few years, astronauts will continue with additional missions to the Moon, building up capabilities to attempt missions to Mars by the 2030s.