Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows::Americans like NASA, but don’t support their funding going towards moon missions, according to new polls.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    Nah. If we go back to the Moon, we are going to need more than “new technologies”, but an actual purpose.

    Right now, Helium-3, rare earth metals, and a slingshot to the rest of the solar system are good reasons to colonize the Moon if we can figure out how to do it cheaply.