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By Chen Yu-fu / Staff reporter

The Mainland Affairs Council is closely monitoring if the authorities in Macau would try to force three remaining Taiwanese officials in the Office of Macau Affairs to sign a pledge to recognize the one China principle as a condition for them to receive a visa extension.

The three officials have all applied to extend their visas. Their applications have yet to be approved, the council said.

The last Taiwanese official is allowed to stay in Macau until Oct. 30 when their visa expires.

Since 2019, Taiwanese officials and contractors working in the Office of Macau Affairs have been asked to sign an affidavit recognizing Beijings one China principle as a precondition for a visa, council sources said.

Those refusing to comply would be denied entry to Macau or their visas would not be extended, they said.

As China is getting ready to celebrate its National Day on Oct. 1, the government in Macau is very likely to try to force the three Taiwanese officials to sign the one China pledge, council sources said.

The post of director at the office in Macau has remained vacant since Chen Hsueh-huai () retired in 2019.

As the requirement to sign a one China pledge has made it impossible to appoint a new director, the council had asked the Taiwanese officials whose visas have yet to expire to serve as acting directors since then.

In June last year, former acting director of the Office of Macau Affairs Chen Chia-hung () returned to Taiwan after refusing to sign the one China pledge.

The office would be left with only Macanese employees if the three Taiwanese officials in Macau are forced to leave, the council said.

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Wang Mei-hui () yesterday said that the council does not need to wait until the final day to vacate the office in Macau.

The one China principle is designed to destroy the Republic of China and force Taiwanese to recognize the Peoples Republic of China as the suzerain. Taiwan and China are two nations separated by the Taiwan Strait. Taiwanese officials will never sign such a pledge. Instead of waiting until the last day, the council needs to prepare for the possible outcome in advance, because there is no way that Taiwanese officials can be stationed in Macau without a visa, Wang said.

Meanwhile, the council is considering selling the Dr Sun Yat-sen Memorial House in Macau if Macau refuses to extend the visas of the three remaining officials.

The council has full ownership of the memorial house, a property of the government registered under the name of a Singaporean firm.

The property with an area of 439.67m2 is valued at about NT$140 million (US$4.54 million), the council said, adding that it is the only place in China where Taiwans national flag can be displayed.

The council is leaning toward selling the property in case Beijing confiscates it after the last Taiwanese officials leave.

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A shipping container loaded with products of New Zealand and Pacific Island nation Vanuatu left Port of Tauranga, the largest port in New Zealand, on Saturday for the fifth China International Import Expo (CIIE) 2022 to be held in Shanghai on Nov. 5-10.

More than 200 companies from New Zealand have participated in the previous four editions of the expo in China, which is by far New Zealands largest trading partner.

Chen Zhiyang, economic and commercial minister-counselor of the Chinese Embassy in New Zealand, said China encourages more New Zealand companies to embrace the business opportunities presented by the CIIE.

CIIE is a key event in Chinas opening-up. It is a world-class forum for cooperation and a great opportunity for innovation and exploring market potentials, Chen told Xinhua.

During the past years, New Zealand companies have been actively participating in the CIIE, which provides a platform for the vast Chinese consumers to appreciate the high-quality New Zealand products such as agricultural products of dairy products, wine, meat products, honey, and health products and high-quality consumer products, he said.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and New Zealand. We encourage New Zealand companies to fully avail themselves of the CIIE platform to further pragmatic cooperation and enjoy the shared economic development opportunities, Chen added.

The COSCO SHIPPING container, which was heading to China on Saturday, carried a wide range of products from New Zealand and Vanuatu, such as dairy products, honey, juice, and art crafts. The container is expected to arrive at Shanghai Port in early October.

Kang Xiaoyu, managing director of COSCO SHIPPING Lines New Zealand, told Xinhua that her team in New Zealand had been preparing for the shipment for quite a long time.

We collaborated with local companies so that we worked out individual shipping plans for them to make sure the products from New Zealand and Vanuatu arrive in Shanghai safe and sound and on time, she said.

David Song, managing director and CEO of Yashili New Zealand Dairy, said he was looking forward to the new products that the company would launch at the fifth CIIE, and highlighted the support from COSCOs New Zealand team.

Under the challenging circumstances where the global supply chain is at constant risk of disruption, it is great that COSCO supports us with high-quality services, said Song.

YTABC, a New Zealand company participating in the CIIE for the first time, said it has been preparing for the exhibition for months ahead to understand relevant policies and customs clearance procedures. The company is looking forward to showcasing its products at the CIIE.

COSCO SHIPPING is the official international shipping service provider for the CIIE.

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The UN General Assembly is back in person after the pandemic disruption but in a world as full of crises as ever, with the war in Ukraine set to pit the West against Russia.

Some 150 world leaders will descend on New York for a week of diplomacy, with all required to come in person to speak save one Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, granted an exception as he leads the fight against Russian invaders.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, speaking ahead of the summit that formally begins Tuesday, said that the worlds divisions are the widest they have been since at least the Cold War.

Our world is blighted by war, battered by climate chaos, scarred by hate and shamed by poverty, hunger and inequality, Guterres said.

As fractures deepen and trust evaporates, we need to come together around solutions.

For the two previous years, the annual meeting that jams traffic through Midtown Manhattan had been a more subdued affair with leaders allowed to send in videos.

The General Assembly voted Friday to let Zelensky speak by video. Seven nations voted against including Russia, saying that the right should be extended to all leaders, with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Chinese President Xi Jinping, not planning to travel to New York.

Several US adversaries are expected, however, including Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, defying loud protests from their opponents in the United States.

Richard Gowan, who follows the United Nations for the International Crisis Group, said that Zelenskys speech will get 1,000 times more attention than most in-person speeches by other leaders.

But Zelensky has to be careful.A lot of non-Western politicians are resentful of the Wests focus on Ukraine and worry that the war is distracting international attention from issueslike the global food crisis, he said.

The US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, acknowledged the concerns, saying that despite discussions on Ukraine, it will not be the only thing that were dealing with.

We cannot ignore the rest of the world and what is happening in the rest of the world, the impact of climate change, the impact of the pandemic, conflicts elsewhere in the world, she said.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday will co-chair a summit on food security with the African Union, European Union and Spain as high global prices worsened by the invasion of major grain producer Ukraine bring new hunger around the world.

French President Emmanuel Macrons office said that he will seek dialogue with our partners from the South to avoid planting this idea that its the West against the rest.

Despite the shift toward normalcy, the schedule of the General Assembly was scrambled by the death of Queen Elizabeth II. US President Joe Biden, who traditionally would have been one of the first speakers Tuesday and who would have led the food summit, will instead speak Wednesday.

And with Covid concerns lingering, the United Nations is still limiting the size of delegations and requiring the wearing of masks in the towering headquarters on the East River.

Prime Minister Liz Truss, who took office two days before the death of Britains longest-reigning monarch, will fly after the funeral to the United Nations on her first foreign trip since taking office.

The UN summit will also mark a fresh occasion to build momentum on global action on climate change, amid mounting signs that the planet is descending into dangerous levels of warming.

We have run out of time to waste, said Ambassador Walton Webson of Antigua and Barbuda, heading the Alliance of Small Island States.

Our islands are being hit with more severe and more frequent climate impacts and recovery comes at the cost of our development, he said.

Guterres said he will use the week to speak frankly with leaders amid guarded hopes for further progress on climate during the next climate summit, COP27, in Egypt in November.

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Fifty or so migrants sent to the wealthy island of Marthas Vineyard in the northeastern United States as part of a political battle over immigration will be temporarily housed at a military base not far from there, the governor of Massachusetts said Friday.

The migrants, mostly Venezuelans and including children, arrived Wednesday at Marthas Vineyard, a Democratic stronghold and popular vacation spot for the countrys political elite.

They had been put on board flights from Texas which the Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, says he chartered.

Despite local mobilization to help the new arrivals, the island is not equipped to provide sustainable accommodation, and state officials developed a plan to deliver a comprehensive humanitarian response, said a statement from the administration of Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican.

State authorities on Friday offered to move the migrants, on a voluntary basis, to temporary accommodation at the nearby Joint Base Cape Cod.

Families will not be separated, the statement said, noting that the base had previously served as an emergency shelter and that the migrants would have access to care and legal services.

According to local media, the migrants were on their way to the base by midday Friday.

Some of them had said they had not known they were being sent to an island.

Local Democrat legislator Julian Cyr called for an investigation.

Whether or not this meets the legal threshold for human trafficking, this meets the moral threshold of human trafficking, he told local television, adding that he hoped the Department of Justice would look into the incident.

Sending migrants to Democratic strongholds has become a political cudgel for the American right as a means of denouncing President Joe Bidens immigration policy, which they say has allowed undocumented migrants to cross the border with Mexico in large numbers.

It is also a way to try to place immigration at the center of the campaign for the midterm elections in November.

On Thursday morning, two buses carrying migrants arrived near the official residence of Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, a place chosen on purpose because she is overseeing the explosive issue of immigration for the White House. They had been sent by Texass Republican Governor Greg Abbott.

The White House on Friday again slammed the Republican governors tactics towards people who have fled the socialist regime in Venezuela.

These were children. They were moms. They were fleeing communism. And what did Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott do to them? They use them as political pawns, treating them like chattel in a cruel, premeditated political stunt, said White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre.

These are the kinds of tactics we see from smugglers in places like Mexico and Guatemala. And for what? A photo op? she said.

But DeSantis shot back by mocking the fact that the migrants had been transferred off the wealthy island.

By the way, they already bussed them out. They said, We want everyone. No ones illegal. And theyre gone within 48 hours, he said.

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The number of active drilling rigs in the United States increased to 763 this week, up by four from the previous week and 251 from this time last year, according to the weekly data released Friday by Houston-based oilfield services company Baker Hughes.

These active drilling rigs included 599 oil rigs operating in U.S. oil fields, up by eight from the previous week; 162 gas rigs, down by four from last week; and two miscellaneous rigs, the same as last week.

The rigs included 744 land drilling rigs, four inland water drilling rigs, and 15 offshore drilling rigs.

Of them, 45 were directional drilling rigs, 695 were horizontal drilling rigs and 23 were vertical drilling rigs.

So far, the Permian Basin in western Texas and eastern New Mexico has been the largest source of shale oil production growth in the United States, having become an engine of supply growth outside the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in the past years.

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Two million people in Japan were told Saturday to seek shelter before the arrival of Typhoon Nanmadol, national broadcaster NHK said, as the weather agency issued a rare special warning about the powerful storm.

NHK, which compiles alerts issued by local authorities, said level four evacuation instructions the second highest were in place for people in Kagoshima, Kumamoto and Miyazaki in the southern Kyushu region.

The move came as the Japan Meteorological Agency issued its highest alert for the Kagoshima region, a warning that comes when it forecasts conditions only seen once in several decades.

It is the first typhoon-linked special warning issued outside of the Okinawa region since the current system began in 2013.

On Saturday evening, Typhoon Nanmadol was classed at the agencys top category of violent, and was packing gusts of up to 270 kilometres (167 miles) as it hovered about 200 kilometres north-northeast of Minami Daito island, part of a string of remote isles that form the Okinawa region.

The storm is expected to approach or make landfall on Sunday in Kagoshima prefecture, then move north the following day before heading towards Japans main island.

There are risks of unprecedented storms, high waves, storm surges, and record rainfall, Ryuta Kurora, the headof the Japan Meteorological Agencys forecast unit, told reporters.

Maximum caution is required, he said, urging residents to evacuate early.

Its a very dangerous typhoon.

The wind will be so fierce that some houses might collapse, Kurora told reporters, also warning of flooding and landslides.

The evacuation warnings call on people to move to shelter or alternative accommodation that can withstand extreme weather.

But they are not mandatory, and during past extreme weather events authorities have struggled to convince residents to take shelter quickly enough.

Kurora said even inside strong buildings, residents should take precautions.

Please move into sturdy buildings before violent winds start to blow and stay away from windows even inside sturdy buildings, he told a late night press conference.

Japan is currently in typhoon season and faces around 20 such storms a year, routinely seeing heavy rains that cause landslides or flash floods.

In 2019, Typhoon Hagibis smashed into Japan as it hosted the Rugby World Cup, claiming the lives of more than 100 people.

A year earlier, Typhoon Jebi shut down Kansai Airport in Osaka, killing 14 people.

And in 2018, floods and landslides killed more than 200 people in western Japan during the countrys annual rainy season.

Ahead of Typhoon Nanmadols arrival, flight cancellations began to affect regional airports including those in Kagoshima, Miyazaki and Kumamoto, according to the websites of Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways.

Scientists say climate change is increasing the severity of stormsand causing extreme weather such as heat waves, droughts and flash floods to become more frequent and intense.

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Vietnamese authorities have arrested the owner of a karaoke bar where a fire killed 32 people earlier this month, police said Saturday.

The blaze ripped through a three-storey entertainment venue nine days ago in a dense residential neighbourhood of Thuan An city, north of commercial hub Ho Chi Minh City.

It trapped customers and staff as smoke filled the staircase and blocked the emergency exit.

Seventeen people were injured, with many suffering broken bones after the flames forced them to jump from the roof, police said.

Binh Duong provincial police on Saturday confirmed in a statement that bar owner Le Anh Xuan, 42, was arrested a day earlier and would face criminal charges related to breaching fire prevention regulations.

He will be held in custody for four months while the investigation continues, police added.

While 15 of the injured have been released from hospital, two of the most seriously hurt are still receiving medical treatment.

The bodies of the 32 people killed have been handed over to their families.

Firefighters initially struggled to enter the building because of the fires intensity and had to knock down part of a wall to get inside.

Sixty people were inside the 30-room bar when the fire erupted and eight people were found dead in the bars toilet.

In the aftermath of the tragedy survivors described their harrowing escape from the blaze.

We thought we would die, karaoke parlour worker Do Thanh Tu told state media.

Authorities initially blamed an electrical short circuit for the blaze but said the bar had met all fire safety standards in checks over the past three years.

Police partly blamed drunken singers.

They were drunk. So when the staff at the karaoke bar informed them about the fire people in some karaoke rooms didnt listen, provincial police chief Trinh Ngoc Quyen said during a press conference.

In what was previously Vietnams deadliest fire, 13 people died in a 2018 blaze in an apartment complex in Ho Chi Minh City.

In 2016, a fire at a karaoke facility in the capital Hanoi left 13 people dead, prompting a country-wide assessment of fire prevention measures at bars and clubs.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered a further inspection of high-risk venues, especially karaoke bars.

Last month, three firefighters died after trying to extinguish a fire at another karaoke bar in Hanoi.

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President Joe Biden met Friday with relatives of basketball star Brittney Griner and fellow US citizen Paul Whelan, who are both imprisoned in Russia, the White House said.

In separate Oval Office meetings, Biden conferred first with Whelans sister, Elizabeth Whelan, and then Cherelle Griner, the wife of the gold medal athlete.

There was no immediate word from the White House on how these sessions played out, but national security spokesman John Kirby earlier told reporters that discussions are ongoing to secure Griners release.

The president is not going to let up. Hes confident that this is going to remain at the forefront of his mind and his teams mind, Kirby said.

In August, Moscow said it was ready to discuss a prisoner swap for Griner, sparking hopes of a rapid resolution.

Kirby said the Biden administration had made what he called a serious proposal but they are not responding to our offer.

These two individuals ought to be home already. Period, he added.

Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport in February, shortly before Russias invasion of Ukraine, for possessing vape cartridges with a small amount of cannabis oil.

The 31-year-old, who was in Russia to play for the professional Yekaterinburg team during her off-season from the Phoenix Mercury, was charged with smuggling narcotics and was sentenced in early August to nine years in a penal colony.

Former US marine Whelan, 52, was arrested in December 2018 and accused by Russian security services of spying.

He was detained on a visit to Moscow to attend a wedding when he took a USB drive from an acquaintance, thinking it contained holiday photographs. He did not look at the contents of the drive, but his lawyer said it contained state secrets.

The former security official at a vehicle parts company who also has British, Canadian and Irish passports was sentenced to 16 years on espionage charges in June 2020.

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Study involving IFTM scholars explores potential role of the performing arts in promoting a tourism destination

Research Corner | A partnership between Macau Business and the Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM)

The performing arts can play a part in improving the image tourists have of a particular destination, says a piece of research involving two scholars from Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM). The staging of such performances can be an influential attribute for places that might otherwise lack major attractions for visitors, the researchers stated.

As such, branded performing arts programmes should be highlighted in tourism marketing efforts where appropriate, they suggested.

The study was carried out by IFTM scholars Dr Joe Zhou Yong and Dr Soey Lei Sut Ieng, in partnership with Dr Yan Libo from Macau University of Science and Technology. The findings were featured in the academic paper Linking tourists performing arts experience and perceived destination image. It was published last year in the scholarly journal Tourism Recreation Research.

The work was financially supported by Macau University of Science and Technology Foundation.

The research was based on a survey answered by a sample of 419 tourists. They all had watched a live circus performance at an arena in a leading amusement park resort in the neighbouring mainland city of Zhuhai.

The research team concluded that the staging of performing arts could be an effective vehicle to showcase to visitors the cultural charm and the varied offerings of a particular destination. For places that lacked natural or physical attractions but were eager to modify or improve the way they were perceived by tourists, performing arts could be a good and easy-to-implement option in their strategy toolkit, the researchers suggested.

A good performing arts experience had high potential for enhancing destination image, stated the trio of scholars. This is an interesting finding as previous studies have rarely investigated such relationships.

Beautifier for a destinations image

The research concluded that tourist experience of both core and supplementary services relating to a performing arts product had a significant impact on how tourists perceived the value of that offering. This, in turn, affected tourist satisfaction, ultimately influencing how they judged in cognitive and affective terms the image of the host destination.

The core service of a performing arts offering refers to the show or act experience. The supplementary services cover things such as the venue where the performance is delivered, auxiliary amenities, ticketing, and transportation to the venue.

The authors of the study highlighted that Chinese tourists were less concerned about supplementary services than they were about the core service. Although performance organisers needed to ensure supplementary services were of good quality, they should consider allocating more resources to develop and improve their core services for such visitors, it was suggested.

The performing arts should not be limited to serving the needs of local communities, the team of scholars argued. The role played by the staging of such work could be expanded, with the performing arts becoming an important tourist economy activity and a destination image beautifier.

Providing theatre-based performing arts programmes to tourists was an effective way of diversifying the tourist product offering of a destination, said the researchers. The diversification of products and attractions was helpful for retaining tourists timewise in a location, useful for encouraging repeat visits, and assisted in generating word-of-mouth recommendation, they added.

The team of scholars said that performing arts products could contribute to sustainable tourism development. Their research focused on performing arts performances delivered in an arena setting, which the authors described as a form of alternative tourism. The benefits of this form of consumption by tourists stemmed from the fact live art products enrich tourists experience, prolong their sojourn in the destination, and have a relatively lower negative impact on residents, the researchers stated.

The researchers

Dr Joe Zhou Yong is an assistant professor at Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM). He holds a PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests centre around destination development, tourism impact and community perception studies, and event and festival tourism.

IFTM lecturer Dr Soey Lei Sut Ieng received a PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research focuses on the impact of technological innovation on consumer behaviour in the tourism and hospitality industry, with a focus on mobile applications and digital marketing.

Dr Yan Libo is an associate professor at Macau University of Science and Technology. He holds a PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His academic research interests include tourist experience, tourist attractions, destination marketing, and destination management. He is on the editorial board of scholarly journal Tourism Review.

The paper

(Joe) Yong Zhou, Sut Ieng Lei and Libo Yan: Linking tourists performing arts experience and perceived destination image, Tourism Recreation Research, Volume 46, Issue 1, pages 71 to 84, 2021.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02508281.

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NASAs most powerful rocket yet is set to blast off Monday on the maiden voyage of a mission to take humans back to the Moon, and eventually to Mars.

Fifty years after the last time astronauts set foot on the moon in 1972 as part of the Apollo 17 mission, the space program called Artemis is to get under way with the blast off of the uncrewed 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at 8:33 am (1233 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Tens of thousands of people including US Vice President Kamala Harris are expected to gather along the beach to watch the launch, which has been decades in the making.

Hotels around Cape Canaveral are booked solid with between 100,000 and 200,000 spectators expected to attend the launch.

The goal of the flight, dubbed Artemis 1, is to test the SLS and the Orion crew capsule that sits atop the rocket.

The capsule will orbit the Moon to see if the vessel is safe for people in the near future. At some point, Artemis will see a woman and a person of color walk on the Moon for the first time.

This mission goes with a lot of hopes and dreams of a lot of people. And we now are the Artemis generation, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said Saturday.

The massive orange-and-white rocket has been sitting on the space centers Launch Complex 39B for more than a week.

Its fuel tanks began to be filled overnight Sunday to Monday, with NASAs Exploration Ground Systems tweeting that they have been given a go for tanking.

But there was a brief delay of about an hour because of a high risk of lightning when the fueling operations were set to begin.

The process will continue for several hours, until the rocket is filled with more than three million liters of liquid hydrogen and oxygen.

NASA said there is an 80 percent chance of acceptable weather for a liftoff on time at the beginning of a launch window lasting two hours.

For the first time a woman Charlie Blackwell-Thompson will give the final green light for liftoff.

Women now account for 30 percent of the staff in the control room; there was just one for the Apollo 11 mission, the first time astronauts landed on the moon in 1969.

Cameras will capture every moment of the 42-day trip, including a picture of the spacecraft with the Moon and Earth in the background.

The Orion capsule will orbit around the Moon, coming within 60 miles (100 kilometers) at its closest approach and then firing its engines to get to a distance 40,000 miles beyond, a record for a spacecraft rated to carry humans.

Besides the weather, any kind of technical snafu could delay the liftoff at the last minute, NASA officials have said, stressing that this is a test flight.

If the rocket is unable to take off on Monday, September 2 and 5 have been penciled in as alternative flight dates.

One of the primary objectives of the mission is to test the capsules heat shield, which at 16 feet in diameter is the largest ever built.

On its return to the Earths atmosphere, the heat shield will have to withstand a speed of 25,000 miles per hour and a temperature of 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 degrees Celsius). That is half as hot as the Sun.

Dummies fitted with sensors will take the place of real crew members, recording acceleration, vibration and radiation levels.

The craft will deploy small satellites to study the lunar surface.

A complete failure would be devastating for a program that is costing $4.1 billion per launch and is already running years behind schedule.

Mondays launch is not a near-term sprint, but a long-term marathon to bring the solar system and beyond into our sphere, said Bhavya Lal, NASA associate administrator for technology, policy and strategy.

The next mission, Artemis 2, will take astronauts into orbit around the Moon without landing on its surface. The crew of Artemis 3 is to land on the Moon in 2025 at the earliest.

And since humans have already visited the Moon, Artemis has its sights set on another lofty goal an eventual crewed mission to Mars.

The Artemis program is to establish a lasting human presence on the Moon with an orbiting space station known as Gateway and a base on the surface.

Gateway would serve as a staging and refueling station for a voyage to Mars that would take a minimum of several months.

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