Winston Scott, a former NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Navy captain, said Friday that the United States needs to “move forward” with its plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon in the next five years to get ahead of China and Russia’s plans for lunar colonization.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who also serves as interim NASA administrator, said Tuesday that the U.S. plans to send astronauts to circle the moon next year as it moves beyond studying and into the “next phase” of space exploration.
“As Secretary Duffy so eloquently said, we do need to go back to the moon,” Scott said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “We need to occupy the moon with a permanent human presence, and to do so requires power.
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