Tag: Lunar Orbital Platform – Gateway
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Pence calls for NASA to land astronauts on the moon within five years
Vice President Mike Pence speaks at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in 2017. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday that NASA should land astronauts near the south pole of the moon within five years “by any means necessary,” calling for “new urgency” in the U.S. space program and sounding a warning for entrenched…
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Pence rallies Johnson Space Center workers with promise of moon missions
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Vice President Mike Pence speaks to workers Thursday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky In what came across as a combination pep rally and old-time revival, Vice President Mike Pence asked flight controllers, engineers and astronauts at the Johnson Space Center Thursday to “rededicate”…