NASA has set a date to send the first woman to the moon | Chronic

NASA has announced its intention to send the first woman and a man to Luna in 2024, after more than five decades of first landing on the moon on July 20, 1969, the space agency said Tuesday.

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

The agency last announced that the President of the United States, Donald TrumpThere was "challenged to land at the South Pole of the Moon by 2024"and who has increased the budget allocated to the agency for "accelerate the return to the lunar surface".

"This investment will allow us to progress in the design, development and exploration of the project", announced the NASA administrator, Jim Bridenstine, on your Twitter account.

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 landed the first humans in 1969.

"Fifty years after Apollo, the Artemis program will take the next man and the first woman to the moon"badured Bridenstine, who badured that a greater exploration of the moon was expected "to help the United States establish a strategic presence in the space and develop its international badociations ".