NASA's Future Missions and International Collaborations

NASA's Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon by 2025. Surprisingly, it includes plans to establish a sustainable presence and even build a lunar gateway, a space station orbiting the Moon.

NASA's Perseverance rover, launched in 2020, is exploring Mars' Jezero Crater. It’s the first mission to cache Martian soil samples for future return missions, potentially revealing signs of ancient microbial life.

Launched in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope is set to replace Hubble. It will observe the universe's first galaxies, study exoplanets' atmospheres, and potentially identify habitable conditions beyond our solar system.

China's Tiangong space station aims for completion by 2022. It will support long-term crewed missions and scientific research. Interestingly, it will host international experiments, offering a glimpse into global cooperation in space.

NASA's Psyche mission, set to launch in 2022, will investigate the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche. Unique due to its nickel-iron composition, it might hold clues about the early solar system and planetary cores.

Each NASA spacesuit costs about $12 million, more than the price of a small satellite, demonstrating the extreme complexity and technology involved in human space travel.