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| Smooth landing areas void of mountains immediately surround these tall lunar pitons. NASA |
The SPACE1 Moon Landing is not far away, scheduled for 2019. There are four parts to the lunar program, including a commemorative flight to a specific crater, a global polar flight, a mission to the Far Side, and a Lunar Landing.
These are extremely ambitious goals for SPACE1 and all missions are scheduled for the new EM Safety Rocket. As the Monsoon weather is almost over, lunar missions will ramp up until they eventually reach the most complex Moon landing. This 2019 Lunar grouping of missions arrives back to back with the 2020 Mars missions. The only other space agency with a manned lunar mission is SpaceX after 2020 designed to be a flyby and not a lunar landing.
One option is to land on the Moon's Far Side. The Far Side can shield optical and radio telescopes from the Earth and its light pollution and radio noise.
The Lunar landing will use SPACE1's highest technology spacecraft and astronauts. The overall decided purpose of the Moon Landing is yet to be released. The Space News Agency will begin to bleed out details of the mission as the date moves closer to departure.
