The obstacle course in the conquest of the moon.

For years we have been in a tremendous race to reach the moon, to reach the moon again, both the United States and the rest of the nations that are in the Artemis program and China, for their part, are involved in a race for who will be the one who decides or who will have the most or who will have the greatest voice when it comes to distributing the lunar mining resources in this century, come on, because in this century, from the middle of this century, it is expected that the lunar mining resources will be the key piece for the industry space.

And I am not referring to building ships to send others to other planets, others to other exoplanets, which would not be bad, but to make everything from medicines to fibers and high-tech materials that require the resources and weightlessness conditions that are only found in space. These are the things that have been tested for a long time in the international space station and in the Chinese space station, which are very attractive laboratories, from which patents and products come out that are the driving force of part of our current technology, part of China's spectacular development has been thanks to the research of its space station, the same thing happens in the West, they are essential tools, laboratories.

And NASA held a press conference on February 27, I think they realized that China could get ahead of itself, we don't know very well how the Chinese program is going, we know what they are doing well, but we don't know what they are doing wrong, which is also important, but they could get ahead of themselves. And the Artemis program repeats the same mistakes that have happened with other NASA programs and with the constellation program, which is where this Artemis program is based.

The constellation program was launched in 2004 and intended the same thing as the Artemis program, that is, to return Americans to the lunar surface, establish a base and serve as a springboard to travel to Mars, it was the same scheme that we see in the Artemis program, but the costs were increasing in a terrible way and the Artemis program has the same problem, therefore, this press conference has been to update the status of the program, to also update the situation of the Artemis 2 mission, and that in the end all this was going to complicate the situation and the launch would have to be postponed until April if everything goes well. Initially it was planned to launch in February, then there were the March launch windows, but it is clear that in March it will not be possible, the Artemis 2 program aims to take astronauts to the orbit of the Moon, it is the first time that humans would leave low Earth orbit to go so far, since then, if I am not mistaken, in 1972 We humans have not gone above 400,000 km in altitude, in fact, the last one by humans was 700 km in height in a recent mission involving Jared Isaacman, the current director of NASA, because the normal thing was to travel to space stations that are about 400 km high, nothing more, we didn't go any further. At the moment, the launch of the Artemis 2 mission will be moved to April. If there are no problems, Artemis 3, which would originally be the first human landing on the Moon in this century, changes completely. It will no longer even be a mission to go to the Moon; Moon, which is Blue Origin's lander and is going to be impressive.

The Starship should be ready now because it is NASA's plan A, but because it is amazing, the dimensions of the Starship HLS are amazing for what the concept of a lunar lander is, I show it to you, how small it is in the nose. of the Starship is the Orion ship. It is in charge of taking the astronauts from the Earth and taking them to the orbit of the Moon and then in the orbit of the Moon they would have to attach themselves to the Starship, enter inside it and land with the landing Starship, if they can, of course, because the design is also quite complex, it is very high, it is gigantic, it is like using a boat to cross the Atlantic and then using an ocean liner to go from the boat to the beach, it is designed like that, let's wait for more news.

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