The conquest of space and NASA experiments still fascinate ordinary mortals. The launch of the Artemis mission, which was ultimately postponed twice due to technical problems, was once again proof of that. Broken down into three stages, it should allow humans to return to the Moon at the earliest in 2025, fifty-three years after Apollo 17.
Presented as the great space project of the year 2022, this new space challenge was the front page of newspapers around the world and nearly 400,000 people were expected in Florida, in the surroundings of Cape Canaveral, where the Kennedy Space Center is located, to witness the second rocket launch. takeoff attempt A passion that remains intact more than half a century after the first steps of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the famous Earth satellite in 1969.
Anticipate instead of react
If each of us has philosophized at least once about the meaning of life and has dreamed of touching the stars while looking at the sky in the middle of the night, we are also well aware of the danger that space can represent for the human species. . On the one hand, it is a strange environment that we know little about, despite many scientific discoveries; on the other hand, it is made up of moving bodies capable of reducing us to nothing in an instant.
These elements are not ignored by scientists, quite the contrary, and the US space agency has made the preservation of the Earth a priority. Behind the decoration of rhinestones and sequins of Artemis hides another move less mediatic, but perhaps more important for the human being: the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, whose outcome should take place on Monday, September 26 and whose objective is to prepare ourselves to face the worst, namely…