“Apollo On Steroids”: NASA’s Mission To Get The First Woman And Next Man To The Moon By 2024 Written 17 July 2019

17 July 2019
CBS News reports, “Fifty years after the Apollo 11 launch, NASA is setting its sights on a trip back to the moon. The goal is to return to the lunar surface by 2024, in a mission described as ‘Apollo on steroids’ – but some critics argue that’s unrealistic amid budget concerns and already-missed deadlines. Orion is NASA’s first design of a deep space crew capsule since the Apollo era. It looks similar to Apollo’s capsule from the outside, but it’s 50% bigger and can hold four astronauts.” (Image: Artist’s rendering of Orion on Exploration Mission-1. Credit: NASA)
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