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··"I cut it TWICE and it's still short!"SPACE NEWS
By Dan Robitzski
Victor Glover, the pilot for the Artemis 2 lunar flyby mission that brought humans farther away from Earth than ever before, has some notes on the rest of NASA’s Artemis plans. Namely, he’s urging NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman to pursue a simpler path to a crewed moon landing that would target the equatorial region instead of the particularly harsh lunar south pole.
“If you want to go fast, go familiar,” Glover said at the NASA Exploration Science Forum at Ames Research Center on July 21. “We want to get to the surface. If we want to land soon, familiar, daylight, equator.”
Part of Glover’s concerns about starting with a south pole mission, aside from the added difficulty of targeting and operating in the permanently-shadowed craters there, is crewmember safety and the ability to evacuate in case of an emergency or medical issue. The orbit required for a south pole landing may leave crewmembers without an exit plan for up to a week at a time, whereas they could make a speedier exit from the equatorial region.
“We need to be realistic and work our way to the south pole, and maybe not try to go there first,” Glover said.
By Dan Robitzski
Victor Glover, the pilot for the Artemis 2 lunar flyby mission that brought humans farther away from Earth than ever before, has some notes on the rest of NASA’s Artemis plans. Namely, he’s urging NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman to pursue a simpler path to a crewed moon landing that would target the equatorial region instead of the particularly harsh lunar south pole.
“If you want to go fast, go familiar,” Glover said at the NASA Exploration Science Forum at Ames Research Center on July 21. “We want to get to the surface. If we want to land soon, familiar, daylight, equator.”
Part of Glover’s concerns about starting with a south pole mission, aside from the added difficulty of targeting and operating in the permanently-shadowed craters there, is crewmember safety and the ability to evacuate in case of an emergency or medical issue. The orbit required for a south pole landing may leave crewmembers without an exit plan for up to a week at a time, whereas they could make a speedier exit from the equatorial region.
“We need to be realistic and work our way to the south pole, and maybe not try to go there first,” Glover said.
