In 2024 the next man and the first woman will set foot on the moon | Carlos Garcia-Galan, NASA

What will it take to get humans back on the moon? It’s been almost 50 years since humankind set foot on its surface and NASA is gearing up for a return says Carlos Garcia-Galan, the head of European Service Module (ESM) Integration at NASA, specifically working with the Orion spacecraft in the Artemis programme.

Artemis I is launching in early 2022 and will be an unmanned test to orbit the moon before sending a manned test mission to orbit next year. By 2024 or thereabouts we will see people land on the moon but why all the testing? Simply put, the spacecraft needs to withstand the hostile environment of space including 5,000 Fahrenheit upon re-entry - that’s twice the heat of flowing lava. Carlos is part of the team making this happen.

Carlos Garcia-Galan was speaking on the DeepTech stage at Web Summit 2021. Here are some links to the images he mentions: the Orion spacecraft, a view of Earth from Mars as taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover.

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