NASA has accepted the challenge to return US astronauts to the Moon by 2024
NASA has accepted the challenge, saying a new heavy rocket for the Moon missions, the Space Launch System , will be ready next year.
Within months of taking office, President Trump made clear his desire to reinvigorate the US space agency, which had been somewhat adrift since the 2011 end of its shuttle programme.NASA plans 2028 return to Moon, this time to stay In his speech, Mr Pence criticised the "bureaucratic inertia" and "paralysis by analysis" that he said had resulted in the SLS delays, and called for a "new mindset" at the space agency.
He said the US was engaged in a present-day "space race" under Mr Trump, this time against China, just as the country was in the 1960s under President John F Kennedy against the Soviet Union.
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