The Next Steps in Lunar Exploration

NASA is preparing to send the first astronauts to the Moon’s South Pole. Learn about some of the current developments, testing, and training of lunar spacesuits, tools, and lunar rovers occurring at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and its supporting training facilities. Listen as Apollo and Artemis astronauts, as well as subject matter experts, discuss the challenges of exploring the Moon in preparation for Mars. Experts emphasize the extreme lunar conditions that astronauts will experience such as dramatic and diminished lighting conditions, lunar dust challenges, and extreme temperatures. *