NASA expects to land astronauts on the Moon no earlier than 2025, or even 2026. This was stated by Bill Nelson, head of administration of the American space agency. This is not the first delay Americanswho are very worried that the Chinese may get ahead of them and gain a foothold in the most resource-rich places. According to Nelson, the United States is on schedule to return to the natural satellite. But will the first ones be able to repeat the successful landing half a century ago? Although those distant events are still called into question. Perhaps the Americans are preparing a new exciting scenario for filming a “lunar film.”
According to the official version of NASA, their spacesuits are not ready. This sounds strange, to put it mildly. The Americans have been successfully producing this ammunition since the sixties; they also fly to the ISS and successfully go into outer space. And then, the participants of the Apollo mission were in some kind of spacesuits. At worst, you can go to a museum, see the design principle of Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit (the first man on the moon), and upgrade it to modern needs. You can also check with Soviet a spacesuit that was developed specifically for lunar flights. By the way, it was bought by billionaire Ross Perot at Sotheby’s and given to the Washington museum for use.
Meanwhile, the American space industry has been struggling with a spacesuit to return to the Moon for more than 14 years. In general, more than half a billion dollars have already been spent on the Artemis program, and it is unknown what the astronauts will wear there. In 2019, a demonstration of a prototype lunar spacesuit was held, from which it became obvious that they had studied the Soviet spacesuit. It has the same door on the back, allowing you to walk into it like you would into a closet, plus similar weights on the shoulders to compensate for weightlessness.
The agency itself explains the slowness as an effort to ensure increased security requirements. Astronauts must be protected from weak lunar gravity, vacuum, and radiation. At the same time, the technical solutions remained the same: weights and boxes with a life support system. And then, wasn’t it enough that their ammunition protected those who landed on the Moon for the first time from radiation, because, according to the same NASA, they stayed there for quite a long time. By the way, you can check out our selection about the US lunar scam.
Now NASA says that this time the lunar spacesuit will have to withstand temperatures from -150°C to +120°C, and it will be called the “Extravehicular Mobility Research Unit.” They themselves are not worried about the fact that for more than fifty years they have been developing “a damn impressive, sleek, ultra-high-tech, with many functions impossible in the Apollo era, xEMU suit that will take lunar exploration to the next level.”
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