Boulder scientist endorses White House bid for U.S. astronauts to moon by 2024
From the Daily Camera: Vice President Mike Pence, chair of the National Space Council, on Tuesday called for a landing of American astronauts at the south pole of the moon by 2024.
The pledge by Pence, which he said carried the backing of President Donald Trump, came at the fifth meeting of the National Space Council at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and a Boulder scientist was there to help articulate the case as to what could be done there.
"Now has come the time for us to make the next giant leap and return American astronauts to the moon and establish a permanent base there and develop the technology to take American astronauts to Mars and beyond. That is the next giant leap," said Pence, noting that this summer will mark the 50-year anniversary of Neil Armstrong uttering "one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind" as he became the first human to set foot on the lunar surface.