For instance, NASA will be using the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft to send astronauts back to the Moon starting in 2024. The core of the Gateway - the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) - will also be launched by 2024 using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
Paired with a reusable lunar lander, this orbital habitat will allow for long-duration missions to the lunar surface. Between 2024 and 2028, NASA also intends to add the International Habitation Module (I-HAB), the European System Providing Refueling, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (ESPRIT), and possibly more modules to the Gateway.
Richard D. Fisher, Jr. On Taiwan: Building a global response to CCP aggression
Where is the world’s disposition today vis-a-vis the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?
Is it similar to that in Munich, September 1938 when Europe’s powers appeased Adolf Hitler over the “Sudetenland,” despite existing treaty commitments? In other words, analogous to the failure to recognize the PRC’s aggressive intent and to mobilize in response to serial CCP outrages, e.g., Tiananmen and South China Sea; suppression of Hong Kong in violation of a treaty agreement; the internment and genocide of the Uighurs, and its complicity in the death of nearly 3 million people globally via its Wuhan Coronavirus. Do these “passes” now amount to serial “green lights” to invade Taiwan?
be able to understand its orbit quite well be able to take advantages of looking at it the next time it may come around, although, it will be several decades before it will come anywhere near the earth-moon system and i believe it will at that particular time be further than the moon will be. megyn: wow, so this really was a historic moment that we all witnessed together. it doesn t seem like the at least as far as our experience goes anything happened we believe we re still on the air although our viewers will the let us know through twitter or other means. did you expect any disruption to planet earth as a result of this. no, not at all. the excitement really is in the planetary science community. because of this wonderful opportunity. we already had the initial orbit well, well calculated. we ve been observing this particular object for about a year. and indeed, that becomes nowhere near any of our satellites and as i mentioned earlier, it s already passed by, well over 17,000 m