This Thursday was a historic day for Mexico, as it joined the Program Sagebrush, which aims to carry out responsible and sustainable space exploration, in addition to allowing man to set foot back on the Moonas well as on the planet Mars.
This ambitious program is made up of the United States, the POT and 13 more nations. In this case, the Mexican Space Agency will be in charge of expanding the spatial development of our country in this new project in which the following agencies are related:
- European Space (THIS)
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
- Brazilian Space Agency (AEB)
- Australian Space Agency (HANDLE)
Artemis, the ambitious project of man in his space career
The POT it set itself the goal of sending people back to our natural satellite starting in 2025, and of establishing a base that can be used to prepare for trips to the red planet. To do so, it has hired the services of a private company Spacex, which must provide the lunar landing module.
And one of the ten future astronauts selected is precisely an employee of Spacex.
Indigo Menon, the dean of the new class with 45 years, has worked as a doctor for the different missions of Elon Musk’s company that have sent people to the International Space Station.
This was his fifth candidacy to become an astronaut.
“It will be amazing to physically experience it myself,” he says. “As a doctor, I see it in a very different way, (…) and I think that medical knowledge is going to allow people to stay healthy and safe when going there,” he said, referring to the Moon and later to Mars.
The future astronauts move to Texas for their training, which they will receive at the Johnson Space Center. They will train on sorties into space, develop skills in robotics, learn to operate the International Space Station, as well as to speak Russian.
With information from AFP
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