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NASA Aims To Send Humans To Moon By Late 2020s

By Marc Selinger

Monday, February 26th, 2018

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NASA, which recently was told by the Trump administration to return humans to the Moon’s surface, expects to achieve that goal by the “latter part” of the 2020s, acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot said Feb. 20.NASA intends to provide an update on its Moon exploration efforts at the second meeting of the National Space Council, scheduled for Feb. 21 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Lightfoot said at a Space Transportation Association breakfast on Capitol Hill. At the council’s first meeting…

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