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CTOnews.com, December 12 (Xinhua) after a 25.5-day space trip, the unmanned NASA Orion spacecraft splashed down in the waters near the California peninsula at around 01:40 Beijing time, and the next Artemis Ⅱ will be the beginning of a manned mission.

NASA Administrator and former Senator Bill Nielsen said at the launch of the Artemis mission that the agency plans to go to Mars by the end of the 2030s, rather than 2033 as previously expected.

The goal of going to Mars was announced by President Obama. At the time, it was thought that this goal should be achieved around 2033, but that was more than a decade ago.

Now, a more realistic goal is the late 1930s. But much depends on new technologies and the ability to maintain long-term human survival in space. One of the questions is how fast we can send astronauts to Mars. As a result, we finally reached a consensus with the Office of Management and Budget on nuclear thermal propulsion and nuclear power propulsion research. I think Congress will support it. The new technology will propel us to get there faster. So that's why we set the goal of landing on Mars by the end of the 30s, and we have to exceed it.

As part of the Artemis program, SpaceX's starship is currently the only means of transportation that NASA has chosen to send a man to the moon. CTOnews.com learned that Nielsen also shared important details about the SpaceX starship and the lunar lander.

I've been asking Jim Free if their starships can meet every benchmark, schedule, and the answer is yes, and in some cases even better than expected. I have been to Bocaccika, and the scene there is really worth seeing. You'll see how they put these starships together, and then the big booster. Their plan is to make several test flights there. Once they are confident, they will take it to Cape Town, and when they have built the launch pad in Cape Town, they will launch from the current launch pad, which is the periphery of launch pad 39A. You should know that we are developing a new means of transportation, a new rocket. You can expect some delays, but so far all the projects are going according to plan.

Their plan is to make an unmanned landing in 2023, later in 23 years, a year later! Then make a manned (moon landing) landing later in 24 years. So mistakes are also possible. after all, this is a whole new system, but their performance on other systems is impressive.

Michael Salafin, mission manager of NASA Artemis 1, said Orion performed better than NASA engineers initially expected during the round trip to the moon. Spacecraft generate more electricity than expected by generating electricity from solar panels.

▲ captured the view when he returned to Earth from Orion earlier today. Photo Source: NASA Orion spacecraft has now returned to Earth after a 25.5-day space trip.

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