Back to the Moon – but why?
President Donald Trump’s call on NASA to land American astronauts on the Moon by 2024 is the latest episode in a long-running saga of making grand promises about human spaceflight.
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INSIGHT LANDS SAFELY ON MARS
Teams in mission control rooms at NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and its contractor Lockheed Martin in Colorado erupted in applause on Monday as InSight became the eighth lander to reach the surface of Mars undamaged. Viewers online watched a livestream of their moment of victory as controllers at NASA’s JPL shared the first image of InSight’s landing zone
Read moreFOLLOW INSIGHT MARS LANDING LIVE AT NASA’S JPL
Engineers and scientists who spent years preparing the InSight lander for its journey to Mars will have to sit and wait on Nov. 26 while the vehicle carrying the lander descends from space to the surface of the red planet at about 20,000 kilometers per hour.
Read moreBRIDENSTINE: INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP NECESSARY FOR HUMAN MISSIONS TO MOON AND MARS
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said the Trump administration’s goal of landing Americans on the surface of the moon and someday Mars will require companies and international partners, because “we want to do more than even our growing budget can handle.” Full story by Tom Risen online at Aerospace America.
Read moreNASA CHIEF PLEDGES TO REMEMBER MARS WHILE SHOOTING FOR MOON
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has sought to assure advocates of a human mission to Mars that NASA is “doing both the moon and Mars in tandem” rather than focusing exclusively on the Trump administration’s more immediate goal of sending astronauts back to the moon.Full story by Tom Risen on Humans to Mars Summit available at Aerospace America
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