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Humans could remain on the Moon for extended periods later this decade, a senior NASA official told the BBC.
Howard Hu, who leads the agency’s Orion aerospace program, said habitats will be needed to support science missions.
He told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg program that Wednesday’s launch of the Artemis rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft was a “historic day for human spaceflight”.
The Orion capsule is currently about 134,000 kilometers from the Moon.
The Artemis rocket, 100 meters high, took off from the Kennedy Space Center – located in Cape Canaveral, on Merritt Island, in the USA – as part of a NASA mission that intends to take astronauts back to Earth’s satellite after 50 years.
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