Will the first woman on the Moon land on a “Belgian” crater?

Will the next man and first woman on the Moon land on the crater named for Belgian explorer Adrien de Gerlache? Belgian naval officer Baron Adrien de Gerlache (1866-1934) is famous for leading the first winter expedition to Antarctica in 1897-99 with the ship Belgium. In 2000, his name was given by astronomers to a horseshoe-shaped crater located at the South Pole of the Moon. Two sites at the edge of this Gerlache crater and the nearby Gerlache-Kocher massif are among the 13 potential sites for the return of humans to the Moon. We remember that the “Sea of ​​Tranquility”, a vast plain of basalt, was passed down to posterity for hosting the first step of man on the Moon in 1969. On Friday, the American space agency Nasa designated thirteen zones on the moon as suitable landing sites for the Artemis manned lunar mission…

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