NASA announces new plans for space exploration

NASA celebrated its 60th anniversary this week by unveiling plans for the next two decades of space exploration.

The organisation hopes to deploy humans to the moon in long-term expeditions, have astronauts on Mars by the 2030s, and potentially strengthen private and commercial space endeavours.

At a NASA Advisory Council meeting in August, Administrator Jim Bridenstine said there was substantial interest in offsetting the cost of plans by selling off naming rights to NASA’s spacecraft or rockets.