NASA pushes back time frame for human moon mission to 2025

NASA pushes back time frame for human moon mission to 2025

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: November 12 2021

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  • The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced a one-year delay in landing astronauts on the Moon, to 2025.
  • The space agency had earlier planned to send astronauts to the Moon by 2024.
  • NASA itself has stated that the reason for this is the lawsuit brought against the award of this agreement to SpaceX and other reasons.
  • Under this, NASA is going to land the first woman and 13th man on the surface of the Moon.
  • America is the only country in the world that has landed humans on the Moon, and for the first time since 1972, America will again bring humans to the Moon.
  • NASA will send the first woman and 13th man to the Moon under the ‘Artemis Mission’.
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  • About NASA
  • Headquarters: Washington
  • Founder: Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Founded: 29 July 1958
  • NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Preceding agency of NASA:  National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
  • The motto of NASA: "For the Benefit of All"
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