Bridenstine Space Symposium
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that NASA would accelerate its lunar landing plans by focusing initially on only those elements essential to achieving its 2024 goal, then later turning its attention to long-term sustainability. Credit: Tom Kimmell

COLORADO SPRINGS — NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said the agency’s approach to moving up a human lunar landing from 2028 to 2024 will focus first on speed and then on sustainability.

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Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...