According to a recent foreign report, NASA is now exploring the possibility of returning to the moon and plans to use it as a stepping stone to Mars, which can save about $10 billion a year.
To determine if the moon is worth returning, NASA asked Charles Miller, a former senior advisor to NASA, and his consulting firm, NexGen Space LLC, to calculate whether the plan could reduce costs.
So the company called a group of former NASA executives and engineers to form a team to calculate whether the task is cost- and technically feasible. Their calculations were also announced this week.
The team found that with current business partners, such as SpaceX and Boeing, NASA's cost of returning to the moon could be reduced by about 90%, compared to the previous estimate of $100 billion. In the end they also envisioned a lunar base design.
Returning to the moon is also profitable. Scientists have long suspected that there may be frozen water in the moon, perhaps in the corner of a crater that the sun never shines. This is very useful for astronauts because water is an important component of rocket fuel, but it is extremely expensive to send water into space.
The team at NexGen said that if humans collect water on the moon, then the moon can become a relay station for future spacecraft to travel to Mars. The less fuel NASA uses to launch rockets, the more they can save.
But a few measurements are needed before NASA positions the Mars target on the moon, the most important of which is how much water is stored on the moon. NASA's first flight commander, Christopher Kraft, said: "This is one of the dilemmas of this research, because we don't know how much water is on the moon. If the water storage is small, the study cannot continue."
NexGen said in a summary: "If the moon is confirmed to have enough water, then the astronauts can use the moon as a gas station, which can reduce the cost of sending humans to Mars by $10 billion a year. In addition, if we build a permanent base on the moon to mine water, the project will probably be self-sufficient."
Kraft said: "Although this research is flawed, the team did a very competent job, and theoretically provided NASA with a way to take Mars through the moon. I think this report is very good, return The moon is achievable, which requires good management and leadership between aerospace companies and NASA."
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