One of the key planners of the Artemis 1 Moon mission is Tumwater native Nujoud Merancy, NASA’s chief of exploration and mission planning.
Right now, I’m the chief of the exploration mission planning office at Johnson Space Center, so we’re the team that’s been putting together and integrating the mission.Nujoud, I’m sorry, I’m just so frustrated — scrubbed again! Pushed and delayed again! This time because of a hurricane!It happens, right? We launch over the ocean for a reason, so you’re safe, you’re away from everything, but it does put you at the mercy of Florida hurricanes.
It’s not necessarily that you go to the Moon and then go to Mars. That would actually cost more performance wise, propellant, things like that. But a lot of the systems we need on Mars are analogous to what we need on the Moon. Fission nuclear power, potentially long duration habitation. A lot of the tech we develop for the Moon that would then be useful for Mars. We can do a lot of work on these Moon missions to feed the Mars missions down the road.
There’s so many systems we need to build and develop, I’m not going to commit to a year. Hopefully, in the 2030s we’ve built all the systems up to get to Mars.
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