For the first time in history, NASA will send a woman to the moon

NASA announced that he plans to send the moon to the first woman and a man in 2024, after more than five decades of the first landing on the moon on July 20, 1969, said the space agency.

"Only 12 people, men and Americans, walked on the moon, the last of them in 1972," said the director of communication of the NASA, Bettina Inclán.

The agency announced that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, had "challenged them to land at the south pole of the moon by 2024", which increased the budget allocated to the agency to "accelerate the return to the lunar surface."

"This investment will allow us to move forward in the design, development and exploration of the project," said the administrator of the project. NASA, Jim Bridenstine, in his account Twitter.

Big @NASA new! The President introduced a budget amendment for fiscal year 2020 providing for an increase of $ 1.6 billion for our # Moon2024 efforts we are going

Watch the video I sent to the work: pic.twitter.com/7kG8h4msdC

– Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) May 13, 2019

The space agency announced that the name of the new program would be "Artemis", Greek goddess of the moon and twin sister of Apollo, whose mission number 11 managed to land the first humans in 1969.

"Fifty years after Apollo, the Artemis program will take the next man and the first woman to the moon"he badured Bridenstine.

The NASA hope that further exploration of the moon "will help United States establish a strategic presence in the space and develop its international badociations. "

An amount of $ 651 million will be allocated to support the Orion Probe and the rocket that Boeing built for the Moon mission: the Space Launch System or SLS, for its acronym in English. The NASA It has already spent at least $ 11.9 billion on the SLS, which was due to be ready by December 2017.

In addition to innovative research, NASA He hopes this new exploration will inspire the next generation of scientists, reports CNN.