Jonathan McDowell, of the Harvard-Smithsonian centre for astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said: ‘I will be astonished if this happens.’‘That is a hard challenge on a five-year time scale even without political budget infighting,’ he said.
Since Apollo astronauts last walked on the moon in 1972, no country has made a serious attempt to send humans back to the lunar surface. For decades, Nasa has switched focus back and forth from the moon to Mars, a victim of changing presidential administrations. More recently, former president Barack Obama targeted Mars as astronauts’ next big destination, while his successor at the White House, Donald Trump, has favoured the moon.
In order to get astronauts on the moon by 2024, Mr Bridenstine said the space agency’s new megarocket will be needed, but its development and pace will need to be faster. Two weeks ago, he said Nasa was considering using private rockets instead to launch its new Orion capsule around the moon without a crew on a test flight next year.
Who's replacing Stanley Kubrick in the Director's chair?. I'd go with James Cameron.
So make America great again is the time when they went to the moon and had racial tensions. I think the Trump administration and stuck in the 20th century somewhere between the 50's and 70's. They can't makeup their mind but Trump is a 20th century boy.
We could also have gone with 'welcome to the 1950s', 'welcome to the 1970s' or even 'welcome to 1955-1975 according to wikipedia' but we had to make a choice. Can all space pedants give us a wide berth today. Thanks
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