The race to the moon has kicked off again, as the Trump administration is accelerating plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon in order to power a base for humans.
According to a directive by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, the reactor would launch to the moon by 2030. China and Russia are also aiming to use nuclear power on the moon by the end of the decade, which according to Duffy is necessary to sustain life there.
“There’s a certain part of the moon that everyone knows is the best. We have ice there. We have sunlight there. We wanna get there first and claim that for America,” Duffy said.
“The plan involves us to return astronauts to the moon and be a leader in space exploration, because right now, on this whole going back to the moon thing, we’re behind Russia and China because they’re really serious about it, and they’ve been serious about it,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”
However, the news that NASA will be developing reactors for the moon is coming at a challenging time for the agency, as at least 20% of NASA’s workforce has opted to leave the agency through the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program.
The current administration has also proposed decreasing NASA’s budget.
“How much faith do we have in our government doing all this considering they don’t even have the technology to get us back to the moon to begin with?” producer Keith Malinak asks.
“I’ve got almost none,” Gray says. “Especially by 2030.”
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