NASA signed a contract price of $ 187 million for the development of a manned lunar module station, the Gateway with firm Orbital Science Corporation, informed the Ministry.

the contract for development and construction has received a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Space is based in Virginia Firm Orbital Science Corporation.

The amount of the contract includes the design of residential and logistic unit (Habitation and logistics outpost, HALO) station. It is planned that it will present before the end of this year.

HALO, the project will become the place of residence of the crew upon arrival on the lunar station. It is expected to be the size of a small Studio apartment and provide along with the Orion spacecraft habitable environment for people. It is planned that Parts of the housing module, the lunar station will be known after the statement of the NASA project, but before its production.

The administration of U.S. President Donald trump first announced his intention to launch manned flights to the moon in 2024. The new moon program is called "Artemis" (Artemis, Artemis) after the Greek goddess of fertility and the moon, twin sister of the God Apollo, whose name was called the first lunar program of the United States, during which it was made six landings on the moon in 60-70 years of the twentieth century.

in addition, the US planned to build on the lunar orbit station Gateway and call to participate in the project partners on the ISS.



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