The American space agency NASA has chosen several places to land astronauts on the moon.
The agency’s mission to return humans to the moon, Artemis-3, is expected in September 2026. It will be the first time in 50 years since the Apollo missions that humans will land on the moon.
Lakeisha Hawkins, a NASA Moon-to-Mars program official, said in a statement that Artemis will take humanity back to the moon to see places it has never seen before. NASA’s selection of these regions reflects the crew’s commitment to a safe landing near the Moon’s south pole.
NASA has selected nine potential landing sites on the Moon for this mission, and all of them are near the South Pole. The institute’s engineers and scientists have examined the moon’s south pole using data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and other studies.
