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There’s an air of ‘been there, done that’ about the Moon these days.
Increasingly, the great minds of the space industry seem to be thinking bigger — and, since the start of the year, redder.
If you had doubts the Moon’s being eclipsed of late, they might be dismissed by the recent announcement that aerospace group Thales Alenia Space and the Italian Space Agency will develop the first human lunar habitat, in a key update for the NASA-led Artemis program.
“Artemis’ purpose is to ensure a sustainable human presence on the Moon as a stepping stone for future missions to Mars,” the press release says. “Stepping stone” inevitably stands out.
