The U.S. ice president has instructed NASA to place astronauts on the lunar surface by 2024, four years earlier than originally planned.
NASA administrator Bridenstine says that the timeline, though challenging, is do-able. And they have a plan.
Construction will begin in 2022 on "Lunar Orbital Platform - Gateway," a space station which will stay in orbit around the moon. Lunar landers will launch from this platform.
Apollo 11 sent three astronauts to the moon on the Saturn 5 rocket in July of 1969, fifty years ago this coming summer.
from "Can NASA Really Put Astronauts on the Moon in 2024?"
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