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Can NASA really return people to the Moon by 2024?

Donald Trump wants US astronauts back on the Moon. But his ambitious plan faces formidable political, financial and technical challenges.
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Five decades after sending humans to the Moon, NASA is tasked with repeating the feat — and doing it by 2024, the ambitious deadline set by US President Donald Trump’s team. But it is unclear how the space agency will surmount some formidable technical, political and financial challenges to pull off a lunar landing in just four and a half years.

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Nature 571, 153-154 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02020-w

Additional reporting by Elizabeth Gibney.

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