NASA seeks Korea's role in Moon Base project
NASA is seeking Korea’s participation in the sector of communications, landers and robotics in its Moon Base program, the program’s chief said Wednesday. “During Apollo, it was a United States effort, but to build the moon base and even to get back to the moon, we don’t plan to do it alone,” NASA Moon Base Program Manager Carlos Garcia-Galan said during a press briefing in Seoul. “We hope to go hand-in-hand with our international partners and create a team that can achieve the near-impossible. … South Korea is one of the players that we’re hoping will engage with us in this incredible endeavor.” The Moon Base program is part of Artemis, NASA's international lunar exploration initiative aimed at landing humans on the moon. The agency initially planned to establish Gateway, a space station in lunar orbit, but has since shifted its focus to building a permanent base on the lunar surface. Under the revised road map, NASA aims to deploy more than 4,000 kilograms of cargo to the lunar surface by 2028, introduce permanent infrastructure and pressurized rovers by 2032, and conn
