NASA unveils roadmap for putting astronauts on Moon

NASA plans to put American astronauts back on the Moon by 2028, with unmanned demonstration missions in 2024 and 2026, the US space agency chief Jim Bridenstine said. Bridenstine laid out the space agency's plan to support the development of commercial hardware capable of landing astronauts on the moon, the GeekWire reported. "This time, when we go to the Moon, we're actually going to stay," he said. "We're not going to leave flags and footprints and then come home, to not go back for another 50 years." Apollo 11 in July 1969 had put Neil Armstrong as the first man to walk on the lunar surface.