In the early 2000s, the Cleveland Native spent 230 days in space on board the International Space Station.
WAPAKONETA, OHIO (WLIO) - On the 55th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s Walk on the Moon, former astronaut Carl Walz gives his thoughts about following in the footsteps of the Apollo missions and going back there.
NASA partnerships with private companies like Space X and Blue Origin are going to continue to move people into space and continue to push the science of space exploration even further to understand our own moon.
“You know the whole country came together to put Neil (Armstrong) and Buzz (Aldrin) on the moon; keep Mike Collins alive there on Apollo 11. It just shows what people can do together. I hope that we can get that same togetherness feeling going forward,” says Carl Walz, a retired NASA astronaut.
Carl Walz knows something about what it takes to make it in space. In the early 2000s, the Cleveland Native spent 230 days in space on board the International Space Station. He says right now is a great time to be associated with NASA, with everything that is going on 250 miles above our heads.
“I think NASA and the whole international space station community are doing some great science up there. And the Artemis program is moving forward, and we are looking forward to sending humans back to the moon in late '25,” adds Walz.
The Gateway is expected to launch in the next few years and will help support lunar surface missions and missions to go further into space.
NASA partnerships with private companies like Space X and Blue Origin are going to continue to move people into space and continue to push the science of space exploration even further to understand our own moon.
“In addition to the landers, they are developing a sort of a lunar space station called the “Gateway.” So, that will be a permanent fixture in lunar orbit, and it will allow astronauts to work there, studying the environment around the moon in that radiation environment. So, I think that will be very interesting.”
The Gateway is expected to launch in the next few years and will help support lunar surface missions and missions to go further into space.
