After half of century, NASA announced it will land its astronauts on the moon on this year

News24xx.com - Recently, NASA said that it wants to send astronauts to the Moon. For starters, they intend to land their astronauts at the surface of the Earth's natural satellite this year. This was stated by Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "Our hope is to fly to the Moon this year," he said, as quoted from Cnet, on Saturday, February 16th 2019.

To smooth its plan, NASA has contracted nine companies to deliver cargo to the Moon. But the main goal that NASA wants to achieve with its partners is to develop a lunar lander, or space vehicle with the ability to land on the Moon.

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The lunar lander problem becomes NASA's first priority. In fact, they plan to pay more for the first space company that is able to deliver cargo to the surface of the Moon.

However, NASA's plan to fly to the Moon before 2019 ends is also very dependent on the space companies. They even said the exact date of the launch to the space object depends on how fast its partners fulfill their responsibilities.

The tasks themselves will only be announced next month. Even so, with experienced names like Lockheed Martin on the list of nine space companies, it is still possible for NASA to be able to land on the Moon.

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