The vice president said if NASA cannot pull off the monumental feat, 'we need to change the organization, not the mission.”
By Christian Davenport Christian Davenport Reporter covering the defense and space industries Email Bio Follow March 26 at 3:04 PM Vice President Pence on Tuesday called for American astronauts to return to the lunar surface within five years, a bold and exceedingly difficult challenge that would push NASA to its limits.
[NASA wants to get to the moon ‘as fast as possible.’ But countries like China and India are racing there, too.] “Now that would be 18 years after the SLS program was started and 11 years after the president of the United States directed NASA to return American astronauts to the moon,” Pence said. “Ladies and gentlemen, that’s just not good enough.”
Philip Metzger, a planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida, also applauded the fast timeline, but said that “five years is very challenging. I’m not sure it can be done. But it’s a good goal.”
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