It's been nearly 50 years since the last Apollo landing — and the landscape for space exploration is wildly different. Here's why NASA's latest mission is focused on revisiting the moon.
Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Artemis 1 moon rocket at Launch Pad 39 at the Kennedy Space Center.NASA's Artemis I spacecraft was supposed to head to the moon earlier this week. But afterIt's been nearly 50 years since the last Apollo landing, and the landscape for space exploration has changed drastically since then. One obvious update? This ship has no crew . NASA hopes that later Artemis missions will eventually return humans on the moon.
Efficiency, costs, and motivations for the mission have been brought into question leading up to the launch. Lori Garver was the deputy administrator of NASA during the Obama administration and joinedThis interview has been edited for length and clarity.Within the space community, this has been something they wanted to do since they left the moon. And I think one of the reasons we haven't, is because we haven't answered that question [of why they took such a long hiatus].
Well, it's not just this latest setback that is an issue. It's emblematic of why a program that was supposed to take five years has now taken nearly 12. And that was supposed to cost $20 billion, has cost $43 billion. That is something that I don't understand how the public and their elected representatives will continue to support once there is a private sector option flying.
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