According to NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Milroy, “our overarching goal is to develop a blueprint for sustainable human presence and exploration throughout the solar system,” during a presentation at the International Astronautical Conference 2022.
NASA has “Artemis 4 hardware, and even some of the things that start in Artemis 5 are in the works,” according to Space, but the organisation is also looking ahead and figuring out how to think about exploration and deal with it in the far future. Milroy made this statement while putting the Artemis 1 mission on the back pad in Florida.
Milroy added, “Genuinely, to be really ambitious and strategic… we have to have goals, we have to know what the aim is, even if we know. In the past, we’ve said we’re going to establish capabilities and then do whatever those capabilities are going to enable us to achieve. We are not yet prepared to complete everything.
This is crucial, Milroy declared. It influences what we will do in the future.
It’s going to serve as a model for any location outside the solar system, not only Mars.
The full set of 63 goals has been made public by NASA and was developed with input from the organization’s personnel, the general public, business, and foreign partners.
This list contains trade, which highlights the goal of fostering the growth of the extraterrestrial economic space to assist US industry and innovation, crew safety and time management, maintainability and reusability, and international and industrial cooperation.
The Artemis mission is slated to send astronauts back to the Moon after a more than 50-year hiatus, but it is also being hailed as a stepping stone to Mars.
What plan does NASA have for exploring space, from the moon to Mars?
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