NASA’s chief has laid out the space agency’s ambitious plan to go back to the Moon next year and, this time, to stay there and explore the satellite like never before.

In a “bold response” to a mandate from US President Donald Trump to leave Earth's orbit for the first time since 1972, the space agency’s administrator Jim Bridenstine wrote a post calling on private American companies and industry leaders to “help design and develop human lunar landers.”

Bridenstine revealed the agency's goals for the near and distant futures, including getting astronauts back to the Moon and sending the first ones to Mars. However the NASA chief clarified that sending humans to the moon again does not mean doing “the same as we did 50 years ago”.

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About time.