{"id":8672,"date":"2022-09-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2022-09-07T05:51:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T21:51:11","slug":"4-reasons-why-nasa-is-set-to-return-to-the-moon%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/?p=8672","title":{"rendered":"4 Reasons Why NASA is Set to Return to the Moon\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Nancy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe choose to go to the moon,\u201d declared President John F. Kennedy, in his famous speech in 1962. Sixty years after Kennedy\u2019s speech, NASA is once again getting ready to send humans to the moon. No doubt, many people are wondering: why go back? Here are the four main reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. There\u2019s a lot of science to be done on the moon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What can be gathered by today\u2019s astronauts can tell us a lot more than the rock samples brought back by Apollo astronauts decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. It\u2019s a stepping stone to Mars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A blueprint can be obtained at the moon of how to do these things sustainably that can be applied to more distant destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. It could spur new technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dozens of new technologies created to go into space and to the moon have brought substantial benefits to people on Earth – spawning everything from hand-held computers to insulin pumps and freeze-dried food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. It has the potential to inspire a generation of engineers and scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While numbers are impossible to quantify, according to a survey even back in 2009 of 800 researchers, \u201cthe Moon landings deserve credit for motivating a large fraction of today\u2019s scientists \u2026 who have published in Nature in the past three years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Adapted from NPR\u2019s September 3, 2022 article: \u201cNASA is set to return to the moon. Here are 4 reasons to go back\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n