{"id":12437,"date":"2023-01-13T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12437"},"modified":"2023-01-11T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:20:11","slug":"weve-been-there-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/13\/weve-been-there-before\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ve Been There Before"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The moon beckons once again, and this time NASA wants to stay<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by Christian Davenport<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The moon beckons once again, and this time NASA wants to stay \u00a9\u00a0Mario Tama\/Pool\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 2010, during a speech at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, President Barack Obama directed NASA away from its primary target, the moon, to focus its human exploration missions beyond the lunar surface to an asteroid and Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just have to say pretty bluntly here: We\u2019ve been there before,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot more of space to explore, and a lot more to learn when we do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States has since reversed course, with the moon once again the centerpiece of NASA\u2019s exploration goals. Under its Artemis program \u2014 born during President Donald Trump\u2019s tenure and embraced by the Biden administration \u2014 NASA has real momentum and bipartisan political support for one of the most ambitious human space flight efforts in decades. It began with the launch of its massive SLS moon rocket and Orion spacecraft on Nov. 16, a mission without any people on board. The Artemis I mission will be followed by subsequent flights with astronauts \u2014 first orbiting the moon and then eventually landing on the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But despite the progress, the concern raised by Obama still hovers over the space program: We\u2019ve been there, done that. Why return to the moon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer, said Thomas Zurbuchen, the recently retired head of NASA\u2019s science mission directorate, begins with the presence of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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