The Artemis program is poised to shape an entirely new generation of space enthusiasts, one that will, with any luck, see the first humans walk on Mars.
from Launch Pad 39B, launching at 1:47 a.m. ET and initiating an entirely new era of lunar and space exploration.
“When the Apollo mission went up, we didn’t really know what we were doing scientifically,” Jason Steffen, physics and astronomy professor at the University of Nevada, told Gizmodo during a phone interview. “The Apollo program was really a military program under the guise of a scientific endeavor.”Since then, space exploration has advanced well beyond the days of Apollo, and scientists are more aware of how to handle samples from another celestial body.
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