And NASA isn't building the vehicle that will ferry astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface, SpaceX's Starship, so the discussions have been held with the company as well as government personnel.
The constraints NASA has focused on to date have been strictly logistical, including how the site is lit, how easily a team of astronauts can communicate with Earth from the site, and the terrain. The agency has identified and will evaluate more than 10 specific landing sites within each region, all of which are within six degrees of latitude of the south pole of the moon. The selected regions are: Faustini Rim A, Peak Near Shackleton, Connecting Ridge, Connecting Ridge Extension, two regions on the rim of de Gerlache Crater, de Gerlache-Kocher Massif, Haworth, Malapert Massif, Leibnitz Beta Plateau, two regions on the rim of Nobile Crater and Amundsen Rim. "Many of these are places that the science community has been talking about for years." "We can do exciting science at all of them," said Sarah Noble, Artemis lunar science lead for NASA's Planetary Science Division. "People want and need to do things there." "They're of value to the scientific community and the technology community," Mark Kirasich, deputy associate administrator for the Artemis Campaign Development Division at NASA, said during the news conference. All the candidates are clustered near the south pole of the moon, an area of key scientific and exploration interest alike. The agency announced 13 potential landing regions for its Artemis 3 mission during a news conference held on Friday (Aug. Despite the mission's success, the Artemis program has been plagued by accusations of mismanagement.We now know where on the moon NASA astronauts will set foot after more than 50 years' absence. The complaint reads that "Boeing's theft of Wilson's intellectual property rights for tools intended to support the SLS project resulted in mismatching Wilson's designed components with components designed by Boeing and its co-conspirators which led to inferior products being used to tighten fittings and valves."Īfter four attempts to get SLS off the ground, Artemis 1 launched on an historic mission to the moon and back on November 17, 2022. This includes the astronauts, pilots, crewmembers and passengers who come aboard vehicles built by Boeing without knowledge of the unsafe equipment and vehicles manufactured by or at the direction of the aerospace giant.įuel leaks and valve issues plagued SLS throughout 2022, which Wilson's complaint directly attributes to the intellectual property theft it accuses Boeing of engaging in.
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Worse, the suit claims, because Boeing covertly stole Wilson's intellectual property without receiving the full instructions on how to properly build, install, and use it, several of the aerospace and aviation products built by Boeing are pockmarked with critical safety flaws that allegedly put lives at risk. A press release issued by Wilson Aerospace's lawyers states that Boeing obtained proprietary information from the company before terminating Wilson's contracts and then producing their own versions of Wilson's tools that were "critically deficient in quality and performance." Wilson Aerospace says it was contracted by Boeing in 2014 to provide tools for installing the engines to SLS, the backbone of the agency's Artemis program of planned moon missions.
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