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Lunar Gateway

April 10, 2024

"Gateway (space station)" redirects here. For the Frederick Pohl fictional space station, see Gateway (novel). For other uses, see Gateway (disambiguation) and Gateway Station (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Exploration Gateway Platform.

The Lunar Gateway, or simply Gateway, is a space station which Artemis program participants plan to assemble in an orbit near the Moon. The Gateway is intended to serve as a communication hub, science laboratory, and habitation module for astronauts. It is a multinational collaborative project: participants include NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC). The Gateway is planned to be the first space station beyond low Earth orbit.[4][5]

Gateway
An illustration of the Gateway's Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) in orbit around the Moon in 2025
Station statistics
CrewMax 4 (planned)
LaunchNovember 2025 (planned)[1]
Carrier rocketFalcon Heavy
SLS Block 1B
Launch padKennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
Mission statusIn development
Pressurised volume≥125 m3 (4,400 cu ft) (planned)[2]
Periselene altitude3,000 km (1,900 mi)[3]
Aposelene altitude70,000 km (43,000 mi)
Orbital inclinationPolar near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO)
Orbital period≈7 days
Configuration
Configuration as of 16 November 2022

The science disciplines to be studied on the Gateway are expected to include planetary science, astrophysics, Earth observation, heliophysics, fundamental space biology, and human health and performance.[6] As of April 2024 construction is underway of the initial habitation and propulsion modules.[7][8][9] The International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG), which is composed of 14 space agencies including NASA, has concluded that Gateway systems will be critical in expanding human presence to the Moon, to Mars, and deeper into the Solar System.[10]

The project is expected to play a major role in the Artemis program after 2024. While the project is led by NASA, the Gateway is meant to be developed, serviced, and utilized in collaboration with the CSA, ESA, JAXA, and commercial partners. It will serve as the staging point for both robotic and crewed exploration of the lunar south pole and is the proposed staging point for NASA's Deep Space Transport concept for transport to Mars.[11][7][12]

History edit

Background edit

The Apollo Command and Service Module was the first crewed lunar orbiting spacecraft performing dockings and crew transfers with another spacecraft, the Apollo lander. Lunar bases, like the first Tranquility Base as well as concepts for lunar bases have been the main focus of human presence at the Moon.

Prior names edit

Formerly known as the Deep Space Gateway (DSG), the station was renamed Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G) in NASA's 2018 proposal for the 2019 United States federal budget.[13][14] When the NASA budget was signed into law on February 15, 2019,[15] US$450 million had been committed by Congress to preliminary studies.[15][16]

Studies edit

 
2012 concept for the Deep Space Habitat, consisting of a cryogenic propulsion stage, an ISS-derived habitat module, and a MPLM

An earlier NASA proposal for a cislunar station had been made public in 2012 and was dubbed the Deep Space Habitat. That proposal led to funding in 2015 under the NextSTEP program to study the requirements of deep space habitats.[17] In February 2018, it was announced that the NextSTEP studies and other ISS partner studies would help to guide the capabilities required of the Gateway's habitation modules.[18] The solar electric Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) of the Gateway was originally a part of the now-canceled Asteroid Redirect Mission.[19][20] On 7 November 2017, NASA asked the global science community to submit concepts for scientific studies that could take advantage of the Deep Space Gateway's location in cislunar space.[6] The Deep Space Gateway Concept Science Workshop was held in Denver, Colorado, from 27 February to 1 March 2018. This three-day conference was a workshop where 196 presentations were given for possible scientific studies that could be advanced through the use of the Gateway.[21]

In 2018, NASA initiated the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition for universities to develop concepts and capabilities for the Gateway. The competitors were asked to employ original engineering and analysis in one of four areas; "Gateway Uncrewed Utilization and Operations", "Gateway-Based Human Lunar Surface Access", "Gateway Logistics as a Science Platform", and "Design of a Gateway-Based Cislunar Tug". Teams of undergraduate and graduate students were asked to submit a response by 17 January 2019 addressing one of these four themes. NASA selected 20 teams to continue developing proposed concepts. Fourteen of the teams presented their projects in person in June 2019 at the RASC-AL Forum in Cocoa Beach, Florida, receiving a US$6,000 stipend to participate in the Forum.[5] The "Lunar Exploration and Access to Polar Regions" from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez was the winning concept.[22]

NASA unveiled the name of the lunar-orbit space station in November 2019, and the Gateway with its name and logo associated with the American frontier symbol of the St. Louis Gateway Arch.[23]

International participants edit

On 27 September 2017, an informal joint statement on cooperation regarding the program between NASA and Russia's Roscosmos was announced.[9] However, in October 2020 Dmitry Rogozin, director general of Roscosmos, said that the program is too “U.S.-centric” for Roscosmos to participate in,[24] and in January 2021, Roscosmos announced that it would not participate in the program.[25]

As of January 2024, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the European Space Agency (ESA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) all plan to participate in the Gateway project, each contributing a robotic arm called Canadarm3 (CSA), refuelling and communications hardware, habitation and research capacity and an airlock module. These international elements are intended to launch after the initial NASA PPE and HALO elements are placed into lunar orbit with some co-manifested with Artemis missions .[26]

Power and propulsion edit

 
Gateway - Power and Propulsion Element

On 1 November 2017, NASA commissioned five studies lasting four months into affordable ways to develop the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), leveraging private companies' plans. These studies had a combined budget of US$2.4 million. The companies performing the PPE studies were Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK, Sierra Nevada and Space Systems/Loral.[27][20] These awards are in addition to the ongoing set of NextSTEP-2 awards made in 2016 to study development and make ground prototypes of habitat modules that could be used on the Gateway as well as other commercial applications,[12] so the Gateway is likely to incorporate components developed under NextSTEP as well.[20][28] The PPE will use four 6 kW BHT-6000 Busek Hall-effect thrusters[29][30][31] and three 12 kW NASA/Aerojet Rocketdyne Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) Hall-effect thrusters for a total engine output fractionally under 50 kW.[32] In 2019, the contract to manufacture the PPE was awarded to Maxar Technologies.[33] After a one-year demonstration period, NASA would then "exercise a contract option to take over control of the spacecraft".[34] Its expected service time is about 15 years.[35] In late 2023, it was reported that flight qualification testing was occurring on the thrusters for the Power and Propulsion Element.[36]

Orbit and operations edit

The Gateway will be deployed in a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon.[37] The eccentricity of the chosen NRHO takes the station within 1,500 km (930 mi) of the lunar north pole surface at closest approach, and as far away as 70,000 km (43,000 mi) over the lunar south pole, with a period of about 7 days.[3][38][39] One of the advantages of an NRHO is the minimal amount of communications blackout with the Earth.

Traveling to and from cislunar space (lunar orbit) is intended to develop the knowledge and experience necessary to venture beyond the Moon and into deep space. The proposed NRHO would allow lunar expeditions from the Gateway to reach a low polar orbit with a Δv of 730 m/s and a half a day of transit time. Orbital station-keeping would require less than 10 m/s of Δv per year, and the orbital inclination could be shifted with a relatively small Δv expenditure, allowing access to most of the lunar surface. Spacecraft launched from Earth would perform a powered flyby of the Moon (Δv ≈ 180 m/s) followed by a Δv ≈ 240 m/s NRHO insertion burn to dock with the Gateway as it approaches the apoapsis point of its orbit. The total travel time would be 5 days; the return to Earth would be similar in terms of trip duration and Δv requirement if the spacecraft spends 11 days at the Gateway. The crewed mission duration of 21 days and Δv ≈ 840 m/s is limited by the capabilities of the Orion life support and propulsion systems.[40]

Gateway will be the first modular space station to be both human-rated, and autonomously operating most of the time in its early years, as well as being the first deep-space station, far from low Earth orbit. This will be enabled by more sophisticated executive control software than on any prior space station, which will monitor and control all systems. The high-level architecture is provided by the Robotics and Intelligence for Human Spaceflight lab at NASA and implemented at NASA facilities. The Gateway could conceivably also support in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) development and testing from lunar and asteroid sources,[41] and would offer the opportunity for a gradual buildup of capabilities for more complex missions over time.[42]

Animation of Lunar Gateway
 
Around the Earth
 
Viewed from the Earth
 
Side view - Earth is left direction
  Lunar Gateway ·   Earth ·   Moon
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    Near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) in cislunar space, as illustrated by an A.I. Solutions, Inc. using the FreeFlyer software
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    Lunar Gateway orbit. Trajectory plot over seven days with the view fixed on Moon and Earth.
  • Lunar Gateway orbit animation. View fixed on Moon and Earth.
  • Lunar Gateway orbit animation. View from above the lunar north pole with Earth fixed below the frame bottom.

Structure edit

 
Full proposed Lunar Gateway
 
Four astronauts inside of the Gateway mock-up module at the Space Station Processing Facility in the Kennedy Space Center, Florida
 
NASA and Lockheed Martin employees group photo with one of the Gateway modules training mock-up inside the SSPF

For supporting the first crewed mission to the station (Artemis 3) planned for 2026, the Gateway will be a minimalistic mini-space station composed of only two modules: the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO).[43][44] Both PPE and HALO will be assembled on Earth and launched together on a Falcon Heavy in November 2025,[1] and they are expected to reach lunar orbit after nine to ten months.[45] The I-Hab module, a contribution from ESA and JAXA, is to be launched on the SLS Block 1B as a co-manifested payload on the Artemis 4 crewed Orion mission.[46] All modules will be connected using the International Docking System Standard.[47]

Planned modules edit

  • The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) started development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the now canceled Asteroid Redirect Mission. The original concept was a robotic, high-performance solar electric spacecraft that would retrieve a multi-ton boulder from an asteroid and bring it to lunar orbit for study.[48] When ARM was canceled, the solar electric propulsion was repurposed for the Gateway.[49][50] The PPE will allow access to the entire lunar surface and act as a space tug for visiting craft.[33] It will also serve as the command and communications center of the Gateway.[51][52] The PPE is intended to have a launch mass of 5,000 kg (11,000 lb) with propellant accounting for half that mass [53] and the capability to generate 50 kW[20] of solar electric power for its ion thrusters, which can be supplemented by chemical propulsion.[54] In May 2019, Maxar Technologies was contracted by NASA to manufacture this module, which will also supply the station with electrical power and is based on Maxar's 1300 series satellite bus. The PPE will use Busek 6 kW Hall-effect thrusters and NASA Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) Hall-effect thrusters.[29][30][31] Maxar was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract of US$375 million to build the PPE. NASA is supplying the PPE with an S-band communications system to provide a radio link with nearby vehicles and a passive docking adapter to receive the Gateway's future utilization module.[55] NASA awarded a contract of US$331.8 million to launch PPE on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in November 2025 with the HALO module.[1][56]
  • The Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO),[57][58] also called the Minimal Habitation Module (MHM) and formerly known as the Utilization Module,[59] will be built by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (NGIS).[43][60] A single Falcon Heavy will launch HALO in November 2025 along with the PPE module.[1][56] The HALO is based directly on a Cygnus Cargo resupply module[43][61] to the outside of which radial docking ports, body mounted radiators (BMRs), batteries and communications antennae will be added. The HALO will be a scaled-down habitation module,[62] yet it will feature a functional pressurized volume providing sufficient command, control and data handling capabilities, energy storage and power distribution, thermal control, communications and tracking capabilities, two axial and up to two radial docking ports, stowage volume, environmental control and life support systems to augment the Orion spacecraft and support a crew of four for at least 30 days.[60] The overall HALO mass is expected to be 8-9 tons depending on the final internal layout configuration and launch vehicle lift capability.[63] On 5 June 2020, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems was awarded a contract, by NASA, of US$187 million to complete the preliminary design of HALO.[64] On 9 July 2021, NASA signed a separate contract with Northrop for the fabrication of the HALO, and for integration with the PPE being built by Maxar, for US$935 million.[1] In July 2022, Northrop Grumman awarded Solstar a contract to supply Wi-Fi access for personnel and equipment in the HALO module.[65][66]On 2 April 2024, it was announced that welding was complete on the module and that the next step was for the module to undergo a series of stress tests upon successful completion of which it would be transported to Northrop Grumman’s facility in Arizona for final outfitting.[67]
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    Thales Alenia Space Gateway manufacturing team in front of their factories in Cannes, France
    The European System Providing Refueling, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (ESPRIT) service module will provide additional xenon and hydrazine capacity, additional communications equipment, and an airlock for science packages.[2] It will have a mass of approximately 4,000 kg (8,800 lb), and a length of 3.91 m (12.8 ft).[68] ESA has awarded two parallel design studies, one mostly led by Airbus in partnership with Comex and OHB[69] and one led by Thales Alenia Space.[70] The construction of the module was approved in November 2019.[71][72] On 14 October 2020, Thales Alenia Space announced that they had been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to build the ESPRIT module.[73][74] Early 2021, Thales Alenia Space announced effective contract signature.[75] The ESPRIT module will consist of two parts. The first part, called the Halo Lunar Communication System (HLCS) will provide the communications for the mini-station Gateway. It will launch in November 2025 pre-attached to the HALO module, for which Thales has separately been awarded a contract by NASA to construct its hull and micrometeoroid protection. The second part, called the ESPRIT Refueling Module (ERM), will contain the pressurized fuel tanks, docking ports and small-windowed habitation corridor[73][74] and launch in 2029.[76]
  • The International Habitation Module (I-HAB) will be an additional habitation module built by ESA in collaboration with Japan.[71] On 14 October 2020, Thales Alenia Space announced that they had been selected by ESA to build the I-HAB module slated for launch in 2026. The module will also feature contributions from the other station partners, including a life support system from JAXA, avionics and software from NASA and robotics from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).[73][74] The module is slated to launch in 2028 on the Artemis 4 mission as a co-manifested payload on the SLS Block 1B along with a crewed Orion spacecraft.[76] The I-HAB would have a maximum launch mass of 10,000 kg (22,000 lb) and provide a habitable volume of 10 m3 (350 cu ft) (the gross pressurized volume is 35 m3 (1,200 cu ft).[77] In 2019, NASA proposed the addition of a second large U.S. habitation module (to be developed by U.S. industry) in order to increase the station's combined habitable volume to 125 m3 (4,400 cu ft).[2]
  • The Canadarm3, a pair of robotic remote manipulator arms, one large and one small, broadly similar to the Space Shuttle Canadarm and International Space Station Canadarm2, and associated dextrous manipulator. The arm is to operate autonomously; however, it is also capable of accepting control from ground stations or from astronauts aboard Gateway.[78] The Canadarm3 is to be the contribution of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to this international endeavor. CSA contracted MDA (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates) to build the arm. MDA previously built Canadarm2, while its former subsidiary, Spar Aerospace, built Canadarm.[79][80][81]

Proposed modules edit

 
(Outdated) artist's concept of Lunar Gateway orbiting the Moon. The Orion MPCV is docked on the left.

The concept for the Gateway is still evolving, and is intended to include the following modules:[83]

  • The Gateway Logistics Modules will be used to refuel, resupply and provide logistics on board the mini-space station. The first logistics module sent to the Gateway will also arrive with a robotic arm, which will be built by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).[84][85]

Construction edit

Crewed flights to the Gateway are expected to use Orion and SLS, while other missions are expected to be done by commercial launch providers. In March 2020, NASA announced SpaceX with its future spacecraft Dragon XL as the first commercial partner to deliver supplies to the Gateway (see Gateway Logistics Services).[86]

Phase 1 edit

The first two modules (PPE and HALO) will be launched together on the Falcon Heavy rocket in November 2025.[1][56]

Year Mission objective Mission name Launch vehicle Human/robotic elements
November 2025[1] Launch of Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) Mini-space station Gateway Falcon Heavy Robotic
September 2026[76] Delivery of Orion MPCV (with crew, for lunar landing) Artemis 3 SLS Block 1 Crewed
September 2028[76] Delivery of Orion MPCV and I-HAB module[46] Artemis 4 SLS Block 1B Crewed
September 2029[76] Delivery of Orion MPCV and ESPRIT Refueling Module (ERM)[87] Artemis 5 SLS Block 1B Crewed
September 2030[76] Delivery of Orion MPCV and Crew and Science Airlock module Artemis 6 SLS Block 1B Crewed
September 2031[76] (Proposed) Delivery of Orion MPCV and logistics module Artemis 7 SLS Block 1B Crewed

Criticism edit

NASA officials promote the Gateway as a "reusable command module" that could direct activities on the lunar surface.[88] However, Gateway has received some negative reactions.

Michael D. Griffin, a former NASA administrator, said that the Gateway could be useful only after there are facilities on the Moon producing propellant that could be transported to the Gateway. Griffin thinks that after that is achieved, the Gateway would then serve as a fuel depot.[88] In a written testimony to Congress, Griffin stated that the current architecture requiring staging operations at a Gateway based in a lunar polar near-rectlinear halo orbit (NRHO) with a 6.5-day period was disadvantageous in that immediate return to the Gateway from the lunar surface is possible only on 6.5-day centers and that no early human lunar mission should knowingly accept the risk of stranding a crew, whether on the surface or in lunar orbit, for days at a time.[89]

Clive Neal, a University of Notre Dame geologist and advocate for the lunar exploration program, called the Gateway "a waste of money" and stated that NASA is "not fulfilling space policy by building an orbital space station around the Moon".[90]

Former NASA Associate Administrator Doug Cooke wrote in an article on The Hill stating, "NASA can significantly increase speed, simplicity, cost and probability of mission success by deferring Gateway, leveraging SLS, and reducing critical mission operations". He also wrote, "NASA should launch the lander elements (ascent and descent/transfer) on an SLS Block 1B. If an independent transfer element is required, it can be launched on a commercial launcher".[91]

George Abbey, a former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center, said, "The Gateway is, in essence, building a space station to orbit a natural space station, namely the Moon. [...] If we are going to return to the Moon, we should go directly there, not build a space station to orbit it".[92]

Former NASA astronaut Terry W. Virts, who was a pilot of STS-130 aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour and commander of the ISS on Expedition 43, wrote in an op-ed on Ars Technica that the Gateway would "shackle human exploration, not enable it". He also said, "If we don't have the goal [of Gateway], we are putting the proverbial chicken before the egg by developing "Gemini" before we know what "Apollo" will look like. Regardless of a future destination, as someone who lived on the ISS for 200 days, I cannot envision a new technology that would be developed or validated by building another modular space station. Without a specific goal, we're unlikely to ever identify one". Terry further criticized NASA for abandoning its planned goal of separating crew from cargo, which was put in place following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.[93] Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin stated that he is "quite opposed to the Gateway" and that "using the Gateway as a staging area for robotic or human missions to the lunar surface is absurd". Aldrin also questioned the benefit of the idea of sending "a crew to an intermediate point in space, pick up a lander there and go down". Conversely, Aldrin expressed support for Robert Zubrin's Moon Direct concept which involves lunar landers traveling from Earth orbit to the lunar surface and back.[94]

Pei Zhaoyu, deputy director of the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), concluded that the Gateway would have "low cost-effectiveness".[95] Pei said the Chinese plan is to focus on a national research station on the surface.[96] In July 2019, Pei announced that China was holding discussions with Russia and the ESA on international co-operation[97] and in August 2020 unveiled China's concept; the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS)[98] with co-operation from Russia and tentative agreement from ESA.

Architect René Waclavicek, who was involved with the design of the I-HAB module, noted the difficulty of designing a comfortable living quarter for astronauts visiting Gateway. His team was forced to shrink the size of the module to the point where its diameter is just 1.2 meters (4 feet), owing to the limited amount of weight current launch vehicles can carry to Lunar orbit and other technical limits. Additionally, most of I-HAB's 8 cubic meters (280 cubic feet) of available space will be filled with life support equipment, leaving a narrow corridor and a total of 1.5 cubic meters (53 cubic feet) of personal space to be shared by four astronauts.[99]

Mars Society founder Robert Zubrin called the Gateway "NASA's worst plan yet" in an article in the National Review. He said, "We do not need a lunar-orbiting station to go to the Moon. We do not need such a station to go to Mars. We do not need it to go to near-Earth asteroids. We do not need it to go anywhere. Nor can we accomplish anything in such a station that we cannot do in the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, except to expose human subjects to irradiation – a form of medical research for which a number of Nazi doctors were hanged". Zubrin also stated, "If the goal is to build a Moon base, it should be built on the surface of the Moon. That is where the science is, that is where the shielding material is, and that is where the resources to make propellant and other useful things are to be found".[100]

Retired aerospace engineer Gerald Black wrote in an article on The Space Review stating that the Gateway is "useless for supporting human return to the lunar surface and a lunar base". He added that it was not planned to be used as a rocket fuel depot and that stopping at the Gateway on the way to or from the Moon would serve no useful purpose and cost propellant.[101]

Mark Whittington, a contributor to The Hill newspaper and an author of several space exploration studies, stated in an article that the "lunar orbit project doesn't help us get back to the Moon". Whittington also pointed out that a lunar orbiting space station was not utilized during the Apollo program and that a "reusable lunar lander could be refueled from a depot on the lunar surface and left in a parking orbit between missions without the need for a big, complex space station".[102]

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel wrote an article in Forbes titled "NASA's Idea For A Space Station In Lunar Orbit Takes Humanity Nowhere". Siegel stated that "Orbiting the Moon represents barely incremental progress; the only scientific "advantages" to being in lunar orbit as opposed to low Earth orbit are twofold: 1. You're outside of the Van Allen belts. 2. You're closer to the lunar surface", reducing the time delay. His final opinion was that the Gateway is "a great way to spend a great deal of money, advancing science and humanity in no appreciable way".[103]

Response from NASA edit

On 10 December 2018, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said at a presentation "There are people who say we need to get there, and we need to get there tomorrow", speaking of a crewed mission to the Moon, countering with "What we're doing here at NASA is following Space Policy Directive 1", speaking of the Gateway and following up with "I would argue that we got there in 1969. That race is over, and we won. The time now is to build a sustainable, reusable architecture. [...] The next time we go to the Moon, we're going to have American boots on the Moon with the American flag on their shoulders, and they're going to be standing side-by-side with our international partners who have never been to the Moon before".[104]

Dan Hartman, the program manager for Gateway, on 30 March 2020, told Ars Technica that the benefits of using Gateway are extending the mission duration, buying down risk, providing research capability and the capability to re-use ascent modules.

When you go single, I'll say direct mission to the Moon, you're limited on the supplies, either with the Lander or with Orion. With the Gateway, with just with one logistics module, we think we can extend to about twice the mission duration, so 30 days to 60 days. Obviously, the more crew time you have in lunar orbit helps us with research in the human aspects of living in deep space. The more duration we have, certainly that'll help us buy down significant risk with the extreme environments that we're going to be subjecting our crews to. Because we've got to go figure out how to operate in deep space. Obviously we'll demonstrate new hardware and offer that sustainable flexible path for our Lunar Lander system. With the Gateway, the thinking is we'll be able to reuse the ascent modules potentially multiple times. And again, if we can get mission duration beyond the 30 days, it's going to offer us some additional environmental capabilities. We think it's a tremendous risk buy down asset, not only to explore the Moon sustainably, but to prove out some things that we need to do to get to Mars.[105]

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External links edit

  • Deep Space Gateway to Open Opportunities for Distant Destinations - NASA Moon to Mars
  • First human outpost near the Moon – RussianSpaceWeb page about the Gateway
  • History of the Gateway planning

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lunar, gateway, gateway, space, station, redirects, here, frederick, pohl, fictional, space, station, gateway, novel, other, uses, gateway, disambiguation, gateway, station, disambiguation, confused, with, exploration, gateway, platform, simply, gateway, space. Gateway space station redirects here For the Frederick Pohl fictional space station see Gateway novel For other uses see Gateway disambiguation and Gateway Station disambiguation Not to be confused with Exploration Gateway Platform The Lunar Gateway or simply Gateway is a space station which Artemis program participants plan to assemble in an orbit near the Moon The Gateway is intended to serve as a communication hub science laboratory and habitation module for astronauts It is a multinational collaborative project participants include NASA the European Space Agency ESA the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA the Canadian Space Agency CSA and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre MBRSC The Gateway is planned to be the first space station beyond low Earth orbit 4 5 GatewayAn illustration of the Gateway s Power and Propulsion Element PPE and Habitation and Logistics Outpost HALO in orbit around the Moon in 2025Station statisticsCrewMax 4 planned LaunchNovember 2025 planned 1 Carrier rocketFalcon HeavySLS Block 1BLaunch padKennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 LC 39A LC 39BMission statusIn developmentPressurised volume 125 m3 4 400 cu ft planned 2 Periselene altitude3 000 km 1 900 mi 3 Aposelene altitude70 000 km 43 000 mi Orbital inclinationPolar near rectilinear halo orbit NRHO Orbital period 7 daysConfigurationConfiguration as of 16 November 2022The science disciplines to be studied on the Gateway are expected to include planetary science astrophysics Earth observation heliophysics fundamental space biology and human health and performance 6 As of April 2024 construction is underway of the initial habitation and propulsion modules 7 8 9 The International Space Exploration Coordination Group ISECG which is composed of 14 space agencies including NASA has concluded that Gateway systems will be critical in expanding human presence to the Moon to Mars and deeper into the Solar System 10 The project is expected to play a major role in the Artemis program after 2024 While the project is led by NASA the Gateway is meant to be developed serviced and utilized in collaboration with the CSA ESA JAXA and commercial partners It will serve as the staging point for both robotic and crewed exploration of the lunar south pole and is the proposed staging point for NASA s Deep Space Transport concept for transport to Mars 11 7 12 Contents 1 History 1 1 Background 1 2 Prior names 1 3 Studies 1 4 International participants 1 5 Power and propulsion 2 Orbit and operations 3 Structure 3 1 Planned modules 3 2 Proposed modules 4 Construction 4 1 Phase 1 5 Criticism 5 1 Response from NASA 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksHistory editBackground edit The Apollo Command and Service Module was the first crewed lunar orbiting spacecraft performing dockings and crew transfers with another spacecraft the Apollo lander Lunar bases like the first Tranquility Base as well as concepts for lunar bases have been the main focus of human presence at the Moon Prior names edit Formerly known as the Deep Space Gateway DSG the station was renamed Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway LOP G in NASA s 2018 proposal for the 2019 United States federal budget 13 14 When the NASA budget was signed into law on February 15 2019 15 US 450 million had been committed by Congress to preliminary studies 15 16 Studies edit nbsp 2012 concept for the Deep Space Habitat consisting of a cryogenic propulsion stage an ISS derived habitat module and a MPLMAn earlier NASA proposal for a cislunar station had been made public in 2012 and was dubbed the Deep Space Habitat That proposal led to funding in 2015 under the NextSTEP program to study the requirements of deep space habitats 17 In February 2018 it was announced that the NextSTEP studies and other ISS partner studies would help to guide the capabilities required of the Gateway s habitation modules 18 The solar electric Power and Propulsion Element PPE of the Gateway was originally a part of the now canceled Asteroid Redirect Mission 19 20 On 7 November 2017 NASA asked the global science community to submit concepts for scientific studies that could take advantage of the Deep Space Gateway s location in cislunar space 6 The Deep Space Gateway Concept Science Workshop was held in Denver Colorado from 27 February to 1 March 2018 This three day conference was a workshop where 196 presentations were given for possible scientific studies that could be advanced through the use of the Gateway 21 In 2018 NASA initiated the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage RASC AL competition for universities to develop concepts and capabilities for the Gateway The competitors were asked to employ original engineering and analysis in one of four areas Gateway Uncrewed Utilization and Operations Gateway Based Human Lunar Surface Access Gateway Logistics as a Science Platform and Design of a Gateway Based Cislunar Tug Teams of undergraduate and graduate students were asked to submit a response by 17 January 2019 addressing one of these four themes NASA selected 20 teams to continue developing proposed concepts Fourteen of the teams presented their projects in person in June 2019 at the RASC AL Forum in Cocoa Beach Florida receiving a US 6 000 stipend to participate in the Forum 5 The Lunar Exploration and Access to Polar Regions from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez was the winning concept 22 NASA unveiled the name of the lunar orbit space station in November 2019 and the Gateway with its name and logo associated with the American frontier symbol of the St Louis Gateway Arch 23 International participants edit On 27 September 2017 an informal joint statement on cooperation regarding the program between NASA and Russia s Roscosmos was announced 9 However in October 2020 Dmitry Rogozin director general of Roscosmos said that the program is too U S centric for Roscosmos to participate in 24 and in January 2021 Roscosmos announced that it would not participate in the program 25 As of January 2024 the Canadian Space Agency CSA the European Space Agency ESA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA and Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre MBRSC all plan to participate in the Gateway project each contributing a robotic arm called Canadarm3 CSA refuelling and communications hardware habitation and research capacity and an airlock module These international elements are intended to launch after the initial NASA PPE and HALO elements are placed into lunar orbit with some co manifested with Artemis missions 26 Power and propulsion edit nbsp Gateway Power and Propulsion ElementOn 1 November 2017 NASA commissioned five studies lasting four months into affordable ways to develop the Power and Propulsion Element PPE leveraging private companies plans These studies had a combined budget of US 2 4 million The companies performing the PPE studies were Boeing Lockheed Martin Orbital ATK Sierra Nevada and Space Systems Loral 27 20 These awards are in addition to the ongoing set of NextSTEP 2 awards made in 2016 to study development and make ground prototypes of habitat modules that could be used on the Gateway as well as other commercial applications 12 so the Gateway is likely to incorporate components developed under NextSTEP as well 20 28 The PPE will use four 6 kW BHT 6000 Busek Hall effect thrusters 29 30 31 and three 12 kW NASA Aerojet Rocketdyne Advanced Electric Propulsion System AEPS Hall effect thrusters for a total engine output fractionally under 50 kW 32 In 2019 the contract to manufacture the PPE was awarded to Maxar Technologies 33 After a one year demonstration period NASA would then exercise a contract option to take over control of the spacecraft 34 Its expected service time is about 15 years 35 In late 2023 it was reported that flight qualification testing was occurring on the thrusters for the Power and Propulsion Element 36 Orbit and operations editThe Gateway will be deployed in a near rectilinear halo orbit NRHO around the Moon 37 The eccentricity of the chosen NRHO takes the station within 1 500 km 930 mi of the lunar north pole surface at closest approach and as far away as 70 000 km 43 000 mi over the lunar south pole with a period of about 7 days 3 38 39 One of the advantages of an NRHO is the minimal amount of communications blackout with the Earth Traveling to and from cislunar space lunar orbit is intended to develop the knowledge and experience necessary to venture beyond the Moon and into deep space The proposed NRHO would allow lunar expeditions from the Gateway to reach a low polar orbit with a Dv of 730 m s and a half a day of transit time Orbital station keeping would require less than 10 m s of Dv per year and the orbital inclination could be shifted with a relatively small Dv expenditure allowing access to most of the lunar surface Spacecraft launched from Earth would perform a powered flyby of the Moon Dv 180 m s followed by a Dv 240 m s NRHO insertion burn to dock with the Gateway as it approaches the apoapsis point of its orbit The total travel time would be 5 days the return to Earth would be similar in terms of trip duration and Dv requirement if the spacecraft spends 11 days at the Gateway The crewed mission duration of 21 days and Dv 840 m s is limited by the capabilities of the Orion life support and propulsion systems 40 Gateway will be the first modular space station to be both human rated and autonomously operating most of the time in its early years as well as being the first deep space station far from low Earth orbit This will be enabled by more sophisticated executive control software than on any prior space station which will monitor and control all systems The high level architecture is provided by the Robotics and Intelligence for Human Spaceflight lab at NASA and implemented at NASA facilities The Gateway could conceivably also support in situ resource utilization ISRU development and testing from lunar and asteroid sources 41 and would offer the opportunity for a gradual buildup of capabilities for more complex missions over time 42 Animation of Lunar Gateway nbsp Around the Earth nbsp Viewed from the Earth nbsp Side view Earth is left direction Lunar Gateway Earth Moon nbsp Near rectilinear halo orbit NRHO in cislunar space as illustrated by an A I Solutions Inc using the FreeFlyer software nbsp Lunar Gateway orbit Trajectory plot over seven days with the view fixed on Moon and Earth source source source source source source source source source Lunar Gateway orbit animation View fixed on Moon and Earth source source source source source source source source source Lunar Gateway orbit animation View from above the lunar north pole with Earth fixed below the frame bottom Structure edit nbsp Full proposed Lunar Gateway nbsp Four astronauts inside of the Gateway mock up module at the Space Station Processing Facility in the Kennedy Space Center Florida nbsp NASA and Lockheed Martin employees group photo with one of the Gateway modules training mock up inside the SSPFFor supporting the first crewed mission to the station Artemis 3 planned for 2026 the Gateway will be a minimalistic mini space station composed of only two modules the Power and Propulsion Element PPE and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost HALO 43 44 Both PPE and HALO will be assembled on Earth and launched together on a Falcon Heavy in November 2025 1 and they are expected to reach lunar orbit after nine to ten months 45 The I Hab module a contribution from ESA and JAXA is to be launched on the SLS Block 1B as a co manifested payload on the Artemis 4 crewed Orion mission 46 All modules will be connected using the International Docking System Standard 47 Solar ArrayPPEpropulsion moduleSolar ArrayCanadarm3robotic armESPRIT HLCStelecommunicationsHLSdocking portHALOlogistics and habitatESPRIT ERMobservation portand cargo storageCargodocking portFuel storageHeat radiatorHeat radiatorDocking portI HABlogistics and habitatDocking portOriondocking port Planned modules edit The Power and Propulsion Element PPE started development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the now canceled Asteroid Redirect Mission The original concept was a robotic high performance solar electric spacecraft that would retrieve a multi ton boulder from an asteroid and bring it to lunar orbit for study 48 When ARM was canceled the solar electric propulsion was repurposed for the Gateway 49 50 The PPE will allow access to the entire lunar surface and act as a space tug for visiting craft 33 It will also serve as the command and communications center of the Gateway 51 52 The PPE is intended to have a launch mass of 5 000 kg 11 000 lb with propellant accounting for half that mass 53 and the capability to generate 50 kW 20 of solar electric power for its ion thrusters which can be supplemented by chemical propulsion 54 In May 2019 Maxar Technologies was contracted by NASA to manufacture this module which will also supply the station with electrical power and is based on Maxar s 1300 series satellite bus The PPE will use Busek 6 kW Hall effect thrusters and NASA Advanced Electric Propulsion System AEPS Hall effect thrusters 29 30 31 Maxar was awarded a firm fixed price contract of US 375 million to build the PPE NASA is supplying the PPE with an S band communications system to provide a radio link with nearby vehicles and a passive docking adapter to receive the Gateway s future utilization module 55 NASA awarded a contract of US 331 8 million to launch PPE on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in November 2025 with the HALO module 1 56 The Habitation and Logistics Outpost HALO 57 58 also called the Minimal Habitation Module MHM and formerly known as the Utilization Module 59 will be built by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems NGIS 43 60 A single Falcon Heavy will launch HALO in November 2025 along with the PPE module 1 56 The HALO is based directly on a Cygnus Cargo resupply module 43 61 to the outside of which radial docking ports body mounted radiators BMRs batteries and communications antennae will be added The HALO will be a scaled down habitation module 62 yet it will feature a functional pressurized volume providing sufficient command control and data handling capabilities energy storage and power distribution thermal control communications and tracking capabilities two axial and up to two radial docking ports stowage volume environmental control and life support systems to augment the Orion spacecraft and support a crew of four for at least 30 days 60 The overall HALO mass is expected to be 8 9 tons depending on the final internal layout configuration and launch vehicle lift capability 63 On 5 June 2020 Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems was awarded a contract by NASA of US 187 million to complete the preliminary design of HALO 64 On 9 July 2021 NASA signed a separate contract with Northrop for the fabrication of the HALO and for integration with the PPE being built by Maxar for US 935 million 1 In July 2022 Northrop Grumman awarded Solstar a contract to supply Wi Fi access for personnel and equipment in the HALO module 65 66 On 2 April 2024 it was announced that welding was complete on the module and that the next step was for the module to undergo a series of stress tests upon successful completion of which it would be transported to Northrop Grumman s facility in Arizona for final outfitting 67 nbsp Thales Alenia Space Gateway manufacturing team in front of their factories in Cannes France The European System Providing Refueling Infrastructure and Telecommunications ESPRIT service module will provide additional xenon and hydrazine capacity additional communications equipment and an airlock for science packages 2 It will have a mass of approximately 4 000 kg 8 800 lb and a length of 3 91 m 12 8 ft 68 ESA has awarded two parallel design studies one mostly led by Airbus in partnership with Comex and OHB 69 and one led by Thales Alenia Space 70 The construction of the module was approved in November 2019 71 72 On 14 October 2020 Thales Alenia Space announced that they had been selected by the European Space Agency ESA to build the ESPRIT module 73 74 Early 2021 Thales Alenia Space announced effective contract signature 75 The ESPRIT module will consist of two parts The first part called the Halo Lunar Communication System HLCS will provide the communications for the mini station Gateway It will launch in November 2025 pre attached to the HALO module for which Thales has separately been awarded a contract by NASA to construct its hull and micrometeoroid protection The second part called the ESPRIT Refueling Module ERM will contain the pressurized fuel tanks docking ports and small windowed habitation corridor 73 74 and launch in 2029 76 The International Habitation Module I HAB will be an additional habitation module built by ESA in collaboration with Japan 71 On 14 October 2020 Thales Alenia Space announced that they had been selected by ESA to build the I HAB module slated for launch in 2026 The module will also feature contributions from the other station partners including a life support system from JAXA avionics and software from NASA and robotics from the Canadian Space Agency CSA 73 74 The module is slated to launch in 2028 on the Artemis 4 mission as a co manifested payload on the SLS Block 1B along with a crewed Orion spacecraft 76 The I HAB would have a maximum launch mass of 10 000 kg 22 000 lb and provide a habitable volume of 10 m3 350 cu ft the gross pressurized volume is 35 m3 1 200 cu ft 77 In 2019 NASA proposed the addition of a second large U S habitation module to be developed by U S industry in order to increase the station s combined habitable volume to 125 m3 4 400 cu ft 2 The Canadarm3 a pair of robotic remote manipulator arms one large and one small broadly similar to the Space Shuttle Canadarm and International Space Station Canadarm2 and associated dextrous manipulator The arm is to operate autonomously however it is also capable of accepting control from ground stations or from astronauts aboard Gateway 78 The Canadarm3 is to be the contribution of the Canadian Space Agency CSA to this international endeavor CSA contracted MDA formerly MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates to build the arm MDA previously built Canadarm2 while its former subsidiary Spar Aerospace built Canadarm 79 80 81 The Crew and Science Airlock module will be used for performing extravehicular activities outside the mini space station and would have the docking port for the proposed Deep Space Transport It will be built by the UAE s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre MBRSC and is slated for launch around 2030 82 Proposed modules edit nbsp Outdated artist s concept of Lunar Gateway orbiting the Moon The Orion MPCV is docked on the left The concept for the Gateway is still evolving and is intended to include the following modules 83 The Gateway Logistics Modules will be used to refuel resupply and provide logistics on board the mini space station The first logistics module sent to the Gateway will also arrive with a robotic arm which will be built by the Canadian Space Agency CSA 84 85 Construction editCrewed flights to the Gateway are expected to use Orion and SLS while other missions are expected to be done by commercial launch providers In March 2020 NASA announced SpaceX with its future spacecraft Dragon XL as the first commercial partner to deliver supplies to the Gateway see Gateway Logistics Services 86 Phase 1 edit The first two modules PPE and HALO will be launched together on the Falcon Heavy rocket in November 2025 1 56 Year Mission objective Mission name Launch vehicle Human robotic elementsNovember 2025 1 Launch of Power and Propulsion Element PPE and Habitation and Logistics Outpost HALO Mini space station Gateway Falcon Heavy RoboticSeptember 2026 76 Delivery of Orion MPCV with crew for lunar landing Artemis 3 SLS Block 1 CrewedSeptember 2028 76 Delivery of Orion MPCV and I HAB module 46 Artemis 4 SLS Block 1B CrewedSeptember 2029 76 Delivery of Orion MPCV and ESPRIT Refueling Module ERM 87 Artemis 5 SLS Block 1B CrewedSeptember 2030 76 Delivery of Orion MPCV and Crew and Science Airlock module Artemis 6 SLS Block 1B CrewedSeptember 2031 76 Proposed Delivery of Orion MPCV and logistics module Artemis 7 SLS Block 1B CrewedCriticism editNASA officials promote the Gateway as a reusable command module that could direct activities on the lunar surface 88 However Gateway has received some negative reactions Michael D Griffin a former NASA administrator said that the Gateway could be useful only after there are facilities on the Moon producing propellant that could be transported to the Gateway Griffin thinks that after that is achieved the Gateway would then serve as a fuel depot 88 In a written testimony to Congress Griffin stated that the current architecture requiring staging operations at a Gateway based in a lunar polar near rectlinear halo orbit NRHO with a 6 5 day period was disadvantageous in that immediate return to the Gateway from the lunar surface is possible only on 6 5 day centers and that no early human lunar mission should knowingly accept the risk of stranding a crew whether on the surface or in lunar orbit for days at a time 89 Clive Neal a University of Notre Dame geologist and advocate for the lunar exploration program called the Gateway a waste of money and stated that NASA is not fulfilling space policy by building an orbital space station around the Moon 90 Former NASA Associate Administrator Doug Cooke wrote in an article on The Hill stating NASA can significantly increase speed simplicity cost and probability of mission success by deferring Gateway leveraging SLS and reducing critical mission operations He also wrote NASA should launch the lander elements ascent and descent transfer on an SLS Block 1B If an independent transfer element is required it can be launched on a commercial launcher 91 George Abbey a former director of NASA s Johnson Space Center said The Gateway is in essence building a space station to orbit a natural space station namely the Moon If we are going to return to the Moon we should go directly there not build a space station to orbit it 92 Former NASA astronaut Terry W Virts who was a pilot of STS 130 aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour and commander of the ISS on Expedition 43 wrote in an op ed on Ars Technica that the Gateway would shackle human exploration not enable it He also said If we don t have the goal of Gateway we are putting the proverbial chicken before the egg by developing Gemini before we know what Apollo will look like Regardless of a future destination as someone who lived on the ISS for 200 days I cannot envision a new technology that would be developed or validated by building another modular space station Without a specific goal we re unlikely to ever identify one Terry further criticized NASA for abandoning its planned goal of separating crew from cargo which was put in place following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 93 Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin stated that he is quite opposed to the Gateway and that using the Gateway as a staging area for robotic or human missions to the lunar surface is absurd Aldrin also questioned the benefit of the idea of sending a crew to an intermediate point in space pick up a lander there and go down Conversely Aldrin expressed support for Robert Zubrin s Moon Direct concept which involves lunar landers traveling from Earth orbit to the lunar surface and back 94 Pei Zhaoyu deputy director of the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration CNSA concluded that the Gateway would have low cost effectiveness 95 Pei said the Chinese plan is to focus on a national research station on the surface 96 In July 2019 Pei announced that China was holding discussions with Russia and the ESA on international co operation 97 and in August 2020 unveiled China s concept the International Lunar Research Station ILRS 98 with co operation from Russia and tentative agreement from ESA Architect Rene Waclavicek who was involved with the design of the I HAB module noted the difficulty of designing a comfortable living quarter for astronauts visiting Gateway His team was forced to shrink the size of the module to the point where its diameter is just 1 2 meters 4 feet owing to the limited amount of weight current launch vehicles can carry to Lunar orbit and other technical limits Additionally most of I HAB s 8 cubic meters 280 cubic feet of available space will be filled with life support equipment leaving a narrow corridor and a total of 1 5 cubic meters 53 cubic feet of personal space to be shared by four astronauts 99 Mars Society founder Robert Zubrin called the Gateway NASA s worst plan yet in an article in the National Review He said We do not need a lunar orbiting station to go to the Moon We do not need such a station to go to Mars We do not need it to go to near Earth asteroids We do not need it to go anywhere Nor can we accomplish anything in such a station that we cannot do in the Earth orbiting International Space Station except to expose human subjects to irradiation a form of medical research for which a number of Nazi doctors were hanged Zubrin also stated If the goal is to build a Moon base it should be built on the surface of the Moon That is where the science is that is where the shielding material is and that is where the resources to make propellant and other useful things are to be found 100 Retired aerospace engineer Gerald Black wrote in an article on The Space Review stating that the Gateway is useless for supporting human return to the lunar surface and a lunar base He added that it was not planned to be used as a rocket fuel depot and that stopping at the Gateway on the way to or from the Moon would serve no useful purpose and cost propellant 101 Mark Whittington a contributor to The Hill newspaper and an author of several space exploration studies stated in an article that the lunar orbit project doesn t help us get back to the Moon Whittington also pointed out that a lunar orbiting space station was not utilized during the Apollo program and that a reusable lunar lander could be refueled from a depot on the lunar surface and left in a parking orbit between missions without the need for a big complex space station 102 Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel wrote an article in Forbes titled NASA s Idea For A Space Station In Lunar Orbit Takes Humanity Nowhere Siegel stated that Orbiting the Moon represents barely incremental progress the only scientific advantages to being in lunar orbit as opposed to low Earth orbit are twofold 1 You re outside of the Van Allen belts 2 You re closer to the lunar surface reducing the time delay His final opinion was that the Gateway is a great way to spend a great deal of money advancing science and humanity in no appreciable way 103 Response from NASA edit On 10 December 2018 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said at a presentation There are people who say we need to get there and we need to get there tomorrow speaking of a crewed mission to the Moon countering with What we re doing here at NASA is following Space Policy Directive 1 speaking of the Gateway and following up with I would argue that we got there in 1969 That race is over and we won The time now is to build a sustainable reusable architecture The next time we go to the Moon we re going to have American boots on the Moon with the American flag on their shoulders and they re going to be standing side by side with our international partners who have never been to the Moon before 104 Dan Hartman the program manager for Gateway on 30 March 2020 told Ars Technica that the benefits of using Gateway are extending the mission duration buying down risk providing research capability and the capability to re use ascent modules When you go single I ll say direct mission to the Moon you re limited on the supplies either with the Lander or with Orion With the Gateway with just with one logistics module we think we can extend to about twice the mission duration so 30 days to 60 days Obviously the more crew time you have in lunar orbit helps us with research in the human aspects of living in deep space The more duration we have certainly that ll help us buy down significant risk with the extreme environments that we re going to be subjecting our crews to Because we ve got to go figure out how to operate in deep space Obviously we ll demonstrate new hardware and offer that sustainable flexible path for our Lunar Lander system With the Gateway the thinking is we ll be able to reuse the ascent modules potentially multiple times And again if we can get mission duration beyond the 30 days it s going to offer us some additional environmental capabilities We think it s a tremendous risk buy down asset not only to explore the Moon sustainably but to prove out some things that we need to do to get to Mars 105 See also 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