NASA Reveals $28 Billion Plan to Return to the Moon by 2024

NASA Reveals $28 Billion Plan to Return to the Moon by 2024

Published September 23rd, 2020 - 12:30 GMT

































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As part of a program called Artemis, NASA will send a man and a woman to the lunar surface in the first landing with humans since 1972.















The US space agency (NASA) has formally outlined its $28bn plan to return to the Moon by 2024.

As part of a program called Artemis, NASA will send a man and a woman to the lunar surface in the first landing with humans since 1972.

But the agency's timeline is contingent on Congress releasing $3.2billion for building a landing system.

Astronauts will travel in an Apollo-like capsule