NASA Goddard to Build Quake Detector for Artemis III Moon Landing

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NASA Goddard to Build Quake Detector for Artemis III Moon Landing

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will build a moonquake detector for astronauts to deploy on the Moon in 2026 during the Artemis III mission, which will return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time in more than 50 years.   NASA selected the instrument, the Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) as one of the first three pote…