NASA's new mission to reach the moon has the name of a goddess

After the promise of US President Donald Trump to support an initiative to have his country return to the moon and "restore the greatness of NASA", the space agency has advanced two data from the new mission: it will be called Artemis.

"Artemis: twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the moon. This is now the name of our mission back to the Moon in 2024, the agency wrote via Twitter. She celebrated: "includes the first woman and the next man". "Fifty years after Apollo, the Artemis program will lead to next man and the first woman to the moon," was stated at a press conference.

Daughter of Zeus and twin sister of Apollo, Artemis is the Greek goddess of hunting, forests and animals. Apollo was, precisely, the name of the NASA program that allowed the arrival of the human being on the moon in 1969.

For the new project, named after a Greek goddess, Trump asked 1600 million additional dollars That Congress can "go back into space in a big way". "Under my administration, we will restore the grandeur of NASA and we will return to the moon, we will go to Mars, "said the president on his Twitter account.

This would entail an expense to NASA of approximately 22,600 million in dollars for fiscal year 2020. According to US agency documents, the increase in the budget will largely be in research and development. development of a landing system.

The request for increase budgets This took place two months after US Vice President Mike Pence announced that NASA's deadline to bring astronauts back to the moon at four would be reduced.