SPACE EXPLORATION 2021 Style

Exciting times are ahead for NASA, with plenty of challenging happenings in 2021.

Credit: NASA

In a little less than a month, NASA’s Perseverance Rover will be landing on Mars. The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch on Halloween 2021. The Space Launch System, NASA’s most powerful rocket ever built, may launch this year, while the men and women in the Artemis Program work to deliver a woman and a man to the Moon in the next few years. Other subjects, with the increase in launch frequency, are effective space traffic management, the role of the U.S. Space Force, and safety issues including increasing levels of space debris.

The SLS is an advanced, heavy-lift rocket that will provide an entirely new capability for science and human exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. Credit: NASA

Regarding President Biden’s Space Policy, Dale Ketchum, Space Florida, says:

I’m sure the Biden administration will put their own fingerprints on it.

“I don’t anticipate any changes in going to the moon, I don’t see anything significant in moving forward with the SLS and Orion Program,” Ketcham said. “And certainly no changes on commercial crew program because that was an Obama/Biden initiative.”  Source: News 13

It’s a new era for the American Space Program, with new leaders in the White House, and updated priorities to come, so keep watching.

In this article space experts from around the country comment on ongoing priorities. READ MORE.  

Source: GIZMODO