AR ZONE!
BACK TO THE MOON
NASA’S BIGGEST MISSION IN OVER 50 YEARS WILL PUT BOOTS BACK ON THE MOON AND BRING US ONE STEP CLOSER TO MARS
Words by Ailsa Harvey
DID YOU KNOW? During testing, the Orion spacecraft travelled at speeds of over 32,100 kilometres per hour
TheMoon has captured the attention of humans for as long as we have gazed upon the stars. Reflecting the Sun’s light into each dark night, its presence reminds us of the worlds beyond our own. But explorers in the form of astronauts have done much more than simply look upon it.
On 20 July 1969 the first humans landed on the Moon. As part of a series of missions dubbed the Apollo program, NASA astronauts returned to Earth with more knowledge of the rocky orb than our species had ever acquired before. But to think that a handful of missions to this world could make us experts of this foreign terrain would be a mistake. We have only explored a tiny portion of the Moon, and there is still so much more to learn.