NASA plans to send astronauts back to the moon by 2024 – but the space agency’s administrator has his sights set further out in the galaxy
Fifty years after the Apollo moon landing, should America focus its space efforts on returning humans to the moon? Or should it concentrate on exploring new worlds, like Mars?President Donald Trump is asking the American space agency to land humans back on the moon by 2024, four years earlier than previously planned.
Jim Bridenstine, top, talks to farmers at the 2019 World Ag Expo about how technologies originally developed for space are now helping farmers back on Earth, such as the drone, bottom, that is used to monitor crop health. | David McNew/Getty Images Second, because the moon does not have an active atmosphere, an active geology, or an active hydrosphere, it is a repository of billions of years of activity that is frozen in time. We can get the science that tells us how our solar system got formed. We can learn a lot about the sun from the moon, because we have subatomic particles that are impacting the moon all the time.
Communications is just a piece of it. People are familiar with how we navigate with GPS, how we produce food. We are increasing crop yields right now, and we’re going to be able to feed more of the world than ever before because of NASA technology. ... That technology is the same technology that we use to map the moon, and that we use to map Mars.
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