Canada Global(Web News) More than 50 years after the last Apollo mission, the United States will attempt to land a spacecraft on the moon again on January 25, possibly successfully touching the surface of the moon, according to the head of the program. will take Peregrine, the first privately owned space vehicle, will be unmanned, meaning it will operate completely autonomously.
The spacecraft, built by U.S. company Astrobotic, whose CEO John Thornton said it will carry NASA instruments to study the moon’s atmosphere for NASA’s Artemis mission, Thornton launched last week in Pittsburgh. told the press. In the briefing, he said that the biggest challenge in what we are trying to do here is trying to land on the surface of the moon. So that the lighting conditions at the landing point are correct.
Remember that 12 astronauts have landed on the moon so far, all of them NASA astronauts who were sent by the six Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972. NASA launched 12 Apollo missions to the Moon from 1963 to 1972, of which 6 landed on the surface. On December 7, 1972, NASA launched the last mission of the series “Apollo 17”, with 3 astronauts participating in this mission and after traveling for 4 days, this mission succeeded in landing on the surface of the moon on December. The mission set various records and stayed on the moon for 3 days during which the mission walked on the moon for 22 hours and the astronauts collected various rocks weighing 110 kg from an area of up to 35 km and landed on the ground on the 14th. Landed. December Mission Landed on Earth on December 19, Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon
However, now that science has advanced enough that humans are in a position to send machines to do the job instead of traveling to the moon, this new and first self-propelled mission will be launched on December 24 in the United States. . Launched from the state of Florida, a rocket named ‘Vulcan Centaur’ manufactured by UL Industrial Group will be used for the launch of this space mission.
Its space mission will land on the moon automatically without human assistance and will be monitored from the company’s control center. An attempt was made but due to an accident, this mission failed. It should be remembered that only four countries have successfully landed on the moon so far, including the United States, Russia, China, and in August this year, India also achieved the success of Chandrayaan 3. Chandrayaan was also an autonomous mission, but The Peregrine spacecraft, recently developed by American company Astrobotic, will be the first such mission launched by a private company.
