Indian space agency ISRO (ISRO Chandrayaan-3 mission) has created history by landing Chandrayaan-3 on the south pole of the Moon.
ISRO has told the world that we are no less than anyone. Now American space agency NASA is preparing to land on the moon in 2024.
After 54 years, America is going to send its spacecraft to the moon. However, this mission will be completely private. In this, machinery will be sent in place of humans.
American company Astrobotic is on this mission with NASA. The spacecraft will be launched on 24 December.
If everything goes well, it is expected to make a soft landing on the moon in the month of January. By doing so, it will be the first private spacecraft to land on the moon.
This time NASA is going to do such a feat with America’s private company Astrobotic which no one has been able to do till date.
NASA and Astrobotic Company’s Peregrine lunar lander will be launched on December 24. It is expected to lift off from Florida on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket.
The lander, built by Astrobotic, will be the world’s first private spacecraft to land on the Moon. If everything goes well, it will make a soft landing on the Moon on January 25, 2024.
Rover will have machinery and not humans
Space.com quoted NASA as saying that in this mission there will be no humans inside the rover but there will be machinery. Astrobotic Company’s six-foot high rover will carry NASA’s equipment to the moon.
The main objective of this mission is to study the environment of the moon. For the first time, NASA is leading such a mission, which will be done for the first time in the world. For the first time, a rover of a private company will make a soft landing on the moon.
There will be a soft landing on the moon after 54 years
NASA’s mission is also important in this sense because since 1969, NASA has not sent any mission to the moon. The first step on the moon was taken by NASA scientist Neil Armstrong.
Even today there are footprints on the moon. So far only China, Russia, America and India have stepped on the moon.