return to the moon

 A number  of motion space agencies are  shooting for the moon in 2019 china became the first nation to land a  spacecraft on the  far side of the  moon it vows to send humans to the lunar surface by 2030 meanwhile  Russia  has plans to one day still the U.S remains the only country to have sent humans to walk on the lunar surface and now Nasa is poised to make history again in 2024 it plant to sent tow astronauts there  including the first woman  as part of its Artemis program among the candidates in the running for the  job is Nasa astronaut Christina  Koch who lived aboard the international  space  station (ISS) a  giant  laboratory that other earth (see life in space p 18) The astronauts on the us mission will land on the moon's south pole where frozen  water was recently detected  The  crew will search for that water which  experts  say will bey  to carrying out  human missions it space how so  the main component fo water  hydrogen and oxygen essential elements for producing rocket fuel if Nasa can figure out a the moon spacecraft could refuel  there That wold allow astronauts to travel in space for longer periods  and perhaps even stay  there permanently the key to living on the here  moon is water the same as here  on earth  says nasa engineer Daniel Andrews The question now is if the moon could really continue  the amount  of resources we need to live. from called Junior Scholastic .