NASA is secretly planning to return to the Moon?

The ultimate, public goal of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) is now to bring people to Mars in 2030. However, a determined expert, NASA is actually planning to return to the Face. moon first.

Nasa is planning to return to the Moon?

Writing on My San Antonio page, science writer Eric Berger explained how US President Barack Obama outlined NASA goals in the coming decades, in 2010. This goal is to explore an asteroid into the 2020s , and then take a crew to Mars in the 2030s . There is no mention of any mission to another destination between these two objectives.

Recently, NASA has revealed how they are planning to conduct a mission to understand asteroids. They will choose an asteroid from a larger asteroid, then place it in the Moon's orbit and take astronauts there.

Artwork of astronauts returning to the Moon.(Photo: NASA / Corbis)

However, Mr Berger said NASA was " quietly" considering returning to the Moon before going to Mars . In internal studies, NASA is re-examining the Moon, including the surface of this celestial body, for human activities, such as an important stop on the way to Mars.

Berger cites the work of William Gerstenmaier, in charge of NASA's human exploration activities, not considering the current plan for a 900-day mission, going straight to Mars is feasible.

However, according to Berger, it is worth noting that NASA has evaded the claim to return to the Moon. If the agency changes its mind, the move may have taken the recommendation of a June 2014 report by the National Research Council (NRC). The 286-page report emphasizes that NASA will fail if it does not change the approach to Mars announced.

NRC's report asserts, when there is not enough funding, a clear goal or help from countries like China, NASA may not be able to create the next important leap for mankind.

In its report, the NRC studied three options to Mars and said two of them, which included returning to the Moon first to test key technologies, promise promise.

One idea that is being considered is that, after the International Space Station (ISS) stops working, NASA will create a "gateway spacecraft " in Moon's orbit. Astronauts will be able to tour the facility and conduct raids to the Moon. It can also be used as a stopover for fuel or resources for crew on the way to Mars.

Many famous names in the aerospace industry have voiced their opinions about what NASA should do. In October 2014, former astronaut Chris Hadfield also recommended NASA to consider returning to the Moon before arriving in Mars. Meanwhile, Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the Moon, said he did not agree with NASA's current plan for going to Mars through an asteroid exploration mission in the 2020s.

In March, theoretical physicist Dr. Orfeu Bertolami from the University of Porto (Portugal) completed a study that discovered that there would be no feasible way to bring people up. Fire in the next 5 decades.

Despite all these warnings, NASA recently decided to spend $ 10 million in funding for a Texas-based company called Ad Astra to develop an engine that could reach Mars in just 39 days.