MARE and future lunar experiments

Abstract

The end of last year saw the dawn of a new space age with the successful flight of the NASA Artemis I mission (to the Moon and back). Artemis I with the Orion spacecraft and the European Service Module (ESM) paved the way for future human mission back to the Moon in the frame of the Artemis program. This presentation will give an overview of the science performed inside Orion with the Matroshka AstroRad Experiment (MARE) and other radiation research payloads and will put this science in context to future exploration missions. Further on we will discuss the next steps for human explorations and the relevant obstacles in terms of radiation to overcome.