Pence's Plan to Land on the Moon By 2024 Is Ludicrous
The Trump administration has announced it plans to put Americans on the moon no later than 2024—four years earlier than NASA had originally planned.
“Make no mistake about it, we're in a space race today, just as we were in the 1960s—and the stakes are even higher,” Vice Pres. Mike Pence said at a meeting of the National Space Council in Alabama on Tuesday.
Pence mentioned China's Chang'e 4 mission, which landed a robotic probe on the far side of the moon in January. The mission “revealed [China's] ambition to seize the lunar strategic high ground and become the world’s pre-eminent spacefaring nation,” Pence said.