Moon Space

As part of human exploration of the moon numerous space missions have been undertaken to study earth s natural satellite.

Moon space. Earth is about 80 times the volume than the moon but both are about the same age. The main vehicle used to ferry astronauts to the moon will be the orion spacecraft which is scheduled to make its uncrewed maiden flight on nasa s giant space launch system sls rocket next year. More than 100 robotic explorers from more than half a dozen nations have since sent spacecraft to the moon. Researchers will be able to determine if 2020 so is the booster and not a space rock.

Most current space communications rely on radio waves it s the same technology that brought us the voice of neil armstrong when the apollo 11 mission landed on the moon in 1969 he said. Of the moon landings luna 2 of the soviet union was the first spacecraft to reach its surface successfully 1 intentionally impacting the moon on 13 september 1959. The moon was the first place beyond earth humans tried to reach as the space age began in the last 1950s. The moon is the fifth largest natural satellite in the solar system.

The booster that launched the ill fated spacecraft kept going past the moon and out into the solar system. Nine crewed missions have flown to the moon and back. The nasa program expected to cost tens of billions of dollars will send robotic rovers to the surface of the moon before an eventual human landing. At 3 475 km in diameter the moon is much smaller than the major moons of jupiter and saturn.

Four other moons in our solar system are even bigger the moon is a bit more.