NASA is in the process to land astronauts on the moon by 2024. The agency chief of NASA its employees yesterday that mass, not the moon is the agency's ultimate destination. NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine set during a Town Hall style discussion at NASA's Glenn research centre in Cleveland, Ohio. Moon is not the destination. The moon is the waypoint for a human mission to Mars.
During the talk, Jim Bridenstine defended the controversial statement President Donald Trump who tweeted on Friday. NASA should not be talking about going to the moon; we did those 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing including Mars of which the moon is a part many felt that Trump was throwing cold water on others New Moon plans. It was strange as he was reversing his own space policy and even confusing Earth's moon with the moon of Mars.
Jim Bridenstine clarified the tweet of Trump. Referring to Trump's claim that the moon is a part of Mars, the NASA Administrator said, and "We are going to the moon in order to get Mars" Anyone who interpreted that tweet literally is simply reading too far into it. Trump tweet was prompted by a television segment on the Fox Business channel during which are a discussion of NASA plans to land astronauts on the moon by 2024 moved into a debate landing of astronauts on the moon is even valuable.