South Korea tests a solid-fuel space projectile in March 2022 | Image: ROK Ministry of National Defense (March 30, 2022)
South Korea will land a spacecraft on the moon in the next decade and Mars by 2045, President Yoon Suk-yeol said Monday, as part of the country’s new “Future Space Economy Roadmap” that also aims to strengthen space security amid North Korea’s long-range missile tests.
The roadmap also includes the establishment of a new aerospace administration agency similar to NASA and includes six primary policy initiatives.
South Korea will land a spacecraft on the moon in the next decade and Mars by 2045, President Yoon Suk-yeol said Monday, as part of the country’s new “Future Space Economy Roadmap” that also aims to strengthen space security amid North Korea’s long-range missile tests.
The roadmap also includes the establishment of a new aerospace administration agency similar to NASA and includes six primary policy initiatives.
Shreyas Reddy is a correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. He previously worked as a researcher at BBC Monitoring, where his work focused on news and key people and organizations from the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Follow him on Twitter @shreyas_k_reddy.