President Trump was presumably referring to using the moon as a “stepping-stone” for landing on Mars ALAMYNasa’s latest goal of returning humans to the moon in 2024 was thrown into confusion last night as President Trump scorned the plan, weeks after he had ordered it. His comment on Twitter prompted frustration and bafflement at the US space agency, which in March was told to adopt “all means necessary” to land a crew on the moon four years earlier than planned. “For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon — We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!” Mr Trump wrote last night as he flew home from Ireland on Air…

Source: The Times June 07, 2019 23:26 UTC