Trump tries to pick up a rocket to fly people to the moon: NASA still collects it (photo)

The second degree has recently been installed on the adapter of the launch vehicle, which will be responsible for the delivery of the Orion spacecraft with the crew in the orbit around the moon. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel.

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! We would like to remind you that the Space Launch System rocket is one -off and this is one of its main disadvantages, although it is extremely powerful and showed itself well during the first and only launch into space in November 2022. Then the rocket sent an Orion spacecraft to the moon without a crew as a demonstration of the possibility of astronauts per month in the 21st century.

But the cost of launching the Space Launch System rocket is over $ 2 billion, and several tens of billion dollars have been spent on its development. On May 2, US President Donald Trump's administration proposed to cancel Space Launch System Rocket Financing and Orion spacecraft in a budget proposal for 2026. But the cancellation of funding should take place, according to the proposal, after NASA has landed astronauts a month in 2027.

NASA has created a new Space Program "Artemis" in order not only to repeat the landing of astronauts a month (for the first time it happened in 1969, but the last time - in 1972), but also to create conditions for the constant presence of a person on the moon. The monthly program was called "Apollo", and since in ancient Greek mythology, the goddess Artemis is the brother of the god Apollo, the new program got this name.

Orion's unmanned flight to the moon took place as part of the Artemis-1 mission in 2022. Now, at the beginning of 2026, after repeated transfer, NASA planned the launch of the Artemis-2 mission with a crew. Astronauts of NASA Reed Weisman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, as well as astronaut of the Canadian Space Agency Jeremy Hensen will go to Orion spacecraft to fly around the moon. That is, they will not land on the surface of the Earth's satellite.

To bring this ship into space and help you get into the orbit around the moon just and has a rocket Space Launch System, which is now collected by NASA engineers. The Mission of Artemis-3, also after repeated transfer, should take place in 2027. Then two astronauts should be planted for the first time since 1972. But this can be the last time when the Space Launch System rocket will be involved in a monthly mission if budget restrictions for NASA are accepted.