In recent years, the MOON has been at the center of many discussions regarding the very important missions for humanity to be carried out by NASA, but the change of the US president will also bring a change in priorities. More precisely, the experts who monitor what NASA is doing are of the opinion that the mission to return astronauts to the moon in 2024 will no longer have as high a priority as we see now.
LUNA will not be a priority in the Biden administration, or at least that's what those who look carefully at how the next government is organized expect, so we may not see people stepping there soon. The Artemis mission, as NASA has named it, is extremely expensive, and it is possible that the Biden administration will focus more on relaunching the economy than on returning people to the moon, and this will also delay flights to Mars.
MOON: The Extremely IMPORTANT Announcement for the Future of Mankind
The MOON is going to be a hub that NASA wants to use to send astronauts to the planet Mars, but before that it should be colonized, or at least these were the plans until now. We are talking about the idea of those from NASA to send astronauts to the moon again in 2024, at the latest, and to have a colony there before 2030, when the first mission with astronauts to reach Mars should also be launched, but this will not happen.
"I expect the 2024 goal to disappear. I think people will definitely reevaluate the timeline. And frankly, I don't think anyone thought the 2024 timeline was realistic. It was ambitious and aspirational, but I don't think realistic."
LUNA will again have astronauts sent much later than thought, and there can be no talk of colonization yet because since the plans to bring back the astronauts will be postponed, everything will be postponed. The moon will still remain a very important objective of those from NASA, only that the current global economic situation forces the American space agency to rethink its priorities very seriously, and it remains to be seen what it will decide to do.
The MOON is a very important objective including for other space agencies, not only for NASA, and more and more missions are announced for its exploration, even from a distance.
