Open AccessRetracing the Footprints
Author(s) -
Michael J. Abrams
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mechanical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1943-5649
pISSN - 0025-6501
DOI - 10.1115/1.2021-may4
Subject(s) - apollo , engineering , systems engineering , moon landing , astrobiology , aerospace engineering , aeronautics , computer science , zoology , physics , biology
NASA is engaged in a new program to send astronauts back to the lunar surface. Some elements of the new program, called Artemis, will seem like carbon copies of the 1960s roadmap to the Moon. Bu the effort will take advantage of computers, design tools, and materials that are radically more advanced than they were for the Apollo program.