NASA preferred sending astronauts to Mars, on Wednesday to lead President Donald Trump’s US space agency, focusing on a long-term planned return on the moon, was obtained to emphasize both.
Although NASA’s “Artemis” Moon Mission was declared in Trump’s first term, he again introduced it openly about going directly to Mars, worrying that China or other people could fill the difference on the lunar surface.
This notion has obtained traction as Elon Musk – the world’s richest person and SpaceX chief who has long seen a human mission for Mars – became a major Trump allies and advisors.
Businessman Jred Isaqman, while overseeing his appointment to the Senate Committee, said, “We will give priority to send American astronauts to Mars.”
“And along the way, we have the ability to determine scientific, economic and national security benefits to essentially return to the moon and maintain the presence on the lunar surface,” he said.
Musk established its successful space company with the idea of ​​making humanity a multilateral species.
Isaacman, an e-payment billionaire, is a close aide, a close aide, who has been swept away twice with SpaceX as a private astronaut.
He did not appear to see a dialect for inconsistent Mars with the Artemis Mission, telling the senators that he did not see any “hard trade” here.
“I want to see us completely returning to the moon,” he said, he said that he does not think NASA “a binary decision of Moon vs Mars, or the Moon will have to come first vs. Mars.”
“I think we can parallel these efforts and impossible, which is why American taxpayers funded NASA in the first place,” he said.
A “first step” will return to the moon, he said, “We should both.”
Texas Senator Ted Cruz underlined the strategic value of the moon when it came back to Earth.
Republican said, “We must stay in the course – an extreme change in priorities at this level would definitely mean a red moon, citing the land to China for the coming generations,”, whose kingdom hosts NASA’s mass Johnson Space Center.
Cruz said, “I am working hard to think of a more terrible mistake, which we can do in space than to say to Communist China,” Moon is yours. “
But Isaacman emphasized both a moonlight and a Mars-shot.
He said, “We can do a course for Mars, which can reach the moon before returning to the moon in line with the President’s vision.”
Isaacman has also intervened at the last moment to prevent NASA from suffering from deep cuts by the so -called government proficiency department of Musk to other agencies.
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