The Moon Continues to Beckon
Today every technologically advanced country on Earth has fallen to the glowing allure of our lunar companion with missions to the Moon. e list of countries now includes South Korea.
Riding atop a SpaceX rocket, the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter lied o from Cape Canaveral in Florida on August 4 and is due to arrive at the moon by mid-December 2022. Its mission? Among other things, to make a one-year polar orbit while seeking to inventory the supply of ice hidden within the shadows of lunar craters, to sni out ancient lunar magnetism, and to seek a likely spot for a South Korean lander in the early 2030s.