Fifty years after humanity's first lunar footsteps, the moon is back in NASA's court. SpaceX's Elon Musk also is rooting for the moon, although his heart is on colonizing Mars. Buzz Aldrin, too, is a longtime Mars backer.
1 / 5Moon Landing Going BackFILE - In this, May 9, 2019, file photo, Jeff Bezos speaks in front of a model of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington. Bezos and Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson favor going back to the moon before Mars. SpaceX's Elon Musk also is rooting for the moon, although his heart's on Mars. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Fifty years after humanity's first lunar footsteps, the moon is back in NASA's court.
Fast-forward to the golden anniversary and NASA doesn't even have the capability to get astronauts into orbit around Earth. Russians are launching American astronauts to the International Space Station — for high prices — until capsules built by SpaceX and Boeing are ready. That likely won't happen until next year, almost a decade after NASA's space shuttle program ended.
Even President Donald Trump — whose vice president is out there plugging moonshots — prefers talking up Mars. In an Oval Office meeting with Aldrin and Collins on the eve of the landing anniversary, Trump asked if it was possible to send astronauts to Mars without revisiting the moon. Collins replied yes.
Tackling an engineering problem like getting astronauts to the moon, according to Bezos, requires consistency. It also requires government involvement, given the expense and scale of the project, he noted, as well as multiple companies, not just his own Blue Origin which is intent on building lunar landers.
As the 50th anniversary parties wind down — Apollo 11's wondrous eight-day voyage ended with a Pacific splashdown on July 24, 1969 — NASA keeps cranking up the lunar spotlight.
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