Most stakeholders see the Moon as a viable testbed for technologies that could eventually be used for missions to Mars.
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President Donald Trump vowed that the U.S. would “pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars” at his second inauguration on Jan. 20, proclaiming that astronauts would plant the American flag on Mars by the end of the decade. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, a close ally and “special government employee” in the...
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