Axiom Space, a private company working with NASA on the Artemis 3 mission, has revealed a prototype of the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Units (AxEMUs) at NASA’s Space Center Houston. These new spacesuits build on NASA’s previous work to develop advanced designs and have been specifically tailored to provide greater flexibility and mobility for astronauts during lunar missions. The AxEMUs will be crucial for the Artemis mission’s goal of landing the first woman on the Moon, which is set to take place in 2025.
Despite the successes of the Apollo missions, which saw astronauts land on the Moon and return safely to Earth six times between 1969 and 1972, NASA did not immediately repeat the mission. There were several reasons for this. The Apollo program was incredibly expensive, and there were concerns about the cost of repeating the mission. Additionally, public interest in the mission waned after the first few landings, and there was less political pressure to continue the program.
Another factor was the shift in priorities for NASA following the end of the Cold War. With the United States no longer in a space race with the Soviet Union, NASA turned its attention to other projects, such as the Space Shuttle program, the International Space Station, and the robotic exploration of the solar system.
More recently, however, there has been renewed interest in returning to the Moon, with a focus on establishing a sustainable presence on its surface. The Artemis program aims to achieve this by landing astronauts on the Moon’s South Pole and establishing a base there. With the development of new technologies and partnerships with private companies like Axiom Space, NASA is confident that this goal can be achieved in the near future. There has been extreme excitement among the space lover people and this mission is what many are waiting eagerly for.
