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the launch of Artemis 1 is a big step
towards sending humans back to the moon
for the first time in 50 years Paving
the way for deep space travel and
potentially establishing a human Colony
on Mars who doesn't want to go back to
the Moon I mean come on it's a stepping
stone to the rest of our future and we
have aspirations aspirations for the
moon aspirations for Mars and Beyond the
first of NASA's new Artemis program
Artemis 1 will Voyage to the moon and
back testing two deep space exploration
systems the Orion spacecraft and the
space launch systems rocket the world's
most powerful rocket the Orion
spacecraft will fly about 1.3 million
miles making this the farthest and
longest Mission by any spacecraft built
for humans
but why does NASA want to return to the
Moon NASA scientists hope to eventually
establish a more permanent presence on
the moon to help launch exploration
deeper into space like on Mars we need
to go there learn how to live and work
sustainably off Earth a lot of people
would like to go on to Mars but we have
a lot of experience to get under the
belt before we can do that Journey to
Mars and the Moon is the best place to
do it but before we can set foot on the
red planet we first need to know what it
would take to survive in space
luckily for future Moon dwellers we
already know about one resource
necessary for human survival one of the
big surprises in exploring the Moon is
the discovery of water water and ice
were confirmed on the poles of the Moon
in 2018 and a few years later water
molecules were also found in the sunlit
areas of the Moon if we're going to
create permanent living conditions on
the moon no
hauling water up there
that water then we can make sure our
humans on the moon survive water on the
moon could actually be pretty widespread
and it could have another use too rocket
fuel but not only that if you split
those water atoms differently you can
make propulsion some Rockets today rely
on liquid hydrogen and oxygen and water
is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one
oxygen
and so instead of starting from Earth to
get out to the asteroid belt or
tomorrows we can use propulsion that we
get from the moon it's a lot easier to
Rock It Off the moon there are other
valuable resources on the moon and an
outer space too like rare earth metals
nickel aluminum and platinum we call
them rare earth metals because we don't
have a lot of them on Earth we know that
there are a lot of asteroids out there
that are made up entirely of rare earth
metals and so if we can access the moon
then we can go to those other asteroids
and bring all of those resources back
but the way those resources are mined
and by whom raises a lot of questions
the question I have is is it going to be
like colonization filled with conflict
or will it be more like the way we treat
Antarctica scientists work there nobody
claims to own any of it and we all share
in the discoveries that can be made
there there are a number of
international agreements that govern
space exploration including the outer
space tree treaty which says no country
can claim territory in space
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come the question of if you can't claim
territory how can you use the resources
President Obama in 2015 signed the
asteroid act which says the United
States interprets Article 2 to mean that
you can't go up and claim like a pot of
land but if you extract the resources
from that plot of land you own those
resources so in my opinion the more we
have access to space the more the entire
planet of humanity can profit from that
we live on a finite planet with finite
resources and we're gonna have to get
resources from somewhere eventually and
these bodies are just they're our
neighbors and they have what we need I
think that in the future there will be
more and more participation if we have a
strong global economy as well as
stability
as far as Explorations go humans have
been living in outer space in the
International Space Station for decades
and before that we'd the space shuttle
program and the Apollo program which
brought humans to the moon for the first
time perhaps future Generations will
look at Artemis the way we look at other
missions like the First Flight of the
Wright brothers that led to Aviation but
now we're talking about humans exploring
our solar system in person there's a
whole universe out there to explore
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