Nasa & Space

NASA has bold and visionary plans to send humans to the Moon by 2020 where humans will learn to live and work on another planetary body in our Solar System. Sending people to the Moon isn’t easy, though, and there is a lot that we still don’t know about our closest celestial neighbor. That makes it tough to plan a human mission to the Moon because unlike during the Apollo program of the 1960s, this time we are going to the Moon to stay for a longer period of time.
The goal is to learn to live and work on the Moon and then take all of the “lessons learned” from this experience so we can then send humans to Mars by 2030. Mars is an incredibly fascinating planet but is much further away from the Earth compared with the Moon, so NASA plans to use the Moon as a “stepping stone” to Mars.
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