A number of private companies are scheduled to send scientific craft to the Moon in 2024, while the number of remaining Apollo astronauts continues to decrease.
They were the pioneers of space exploration - the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. Now, more than 50 years on, the race to put people back on the lunar surface is set to heat up once again.
A number of private companies are scheduled to send scientific craft to the Moon in 2024 - although the first of these, Peregrine, And Nasa had intended to launch Artemis 2, its first crewed lunar expedition since Apollo 17, later this year butThese delays highlight the sad fact that the number of remaining Apollo astronauts is dwindling. The programme's Ken Mattingly and Frank Borman died within a few days of each other late last year. Now just eight people remain, who have escaped the relative safety of Earth orbit and ventured deeper into space. Buzz Aldrin, right, along with his crewmates Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins, before their mission to the Moon On 21 July 1969, former fighter pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin left his lunar landing craft and became the second person to step on the surface of the Moo
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