Us Make Huge Nasa Space Announcement about The Moon

US make huge NASA space announcement about the Moon Donald Trump’s understudy said the move would be a “stepping stone” to exploring the Solar System. The statement was greeted with cheers and clapping in the National Space Council audience. Pence said yesterday: We will return astronauts to the Moon.. SHOCK: Mike Pence stunned the audience with the NASA announcement. Not only to leave behind footprints and flags, but to build the foundation we need to send Americans to Mars and beyond, Pence added. In his speech in front of Space Shuttle Discovery at a museum in Chantilly, Virginia, Pence said US space policy had lost its edge and needed to reassert itself. He continued: “The president has charged us with laying the foundation for America to maintain a constant commercial human presence in low-Earth orbit.. “From there, we will turn our attention back toward our celestial neighbours,” Pence went on. President Obama had rejected the Moon as a return destination. Weve been there, he famously bluntly said. SPEECH: Pences announcement led to cheers and applause in the audience. Mike Pence Obama and told NASA to go to the Red Planet instead. He set the ambition to send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth by the mid-2030s. He approved the development of a big new rocket, the Space Launch System, and a deep space capsule called Orion. But the hardware is still some years away from carrying people. NASA has recently started looking at the feasibility of building some kind of lunar space station that it refers to as the Deep Space Gateway. This would be a testing ground for astronauts and their equipment as they move away from Earth and the low-orbiting International Space Station. NASA’s administrator, Robert Lightfoot, also issued a statement on the famous agencys plans yesterday. He said: NASA has been directed to develop a plan for an innovative and sustainable programme of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the Solar System, returning humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilisation, followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations. This comes as US rocket entrepreneur Elon Musk said he hoped to send humans to Mars by 2024. SpaceX’s CEO has plans for a rocket which could carry 100 people to the Red Planet. The last astronaut mission to the Moon was Apollo 17, which saw Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spend 75 hours on the lunar surface. With budgets tightening, NASA was instructed by then US president Richard Nixon to direct its future efforts away from the Moon.