The US wants to land on the Red Planet and once again 'astonish the world'.
Speeding up efforts to put astronauts back on the Moon will enable Nasa to bring a Mars landing closer, the space agency’s chief has said.’s desire to put humans back on the Moon by the year 2024 would provide an opportunity to test its technology and capabilities before carrying out a mission to land on Mars by 2033.
However, Mr Bridenstine admitted that the agency was working on an amendment to its budget request to deal with the accelerated shift towards the Moon.‘We want to achieve a Mars landing in 2033, but in order to do that we have to accelerate other parts of the programme, the Moon is a big piece of that,’ the administrator told the congressional Science, Space and Technology Committee.‘By moving up the Moon landing four years… we can move up the Mars landing.
Last week, US vice president Mike Pence told Nasa he wanted the US to return to the Moon within five years, specifically the lunar south pole, which ‘holds great scientific, economic and strategic value’. ‘America will once again astonish the world with the heights we reach and the wonders we achieve, and we will lead the world in human space exploration once again,’ he said at a meeting of the National Space Council in Huntsville, Alabama.
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