NASA plans to move Americans to the moon by 2040: ‘It was inevitable’

 Shoot for the moon — you could land a new home.

By 2040, Americans could be living on the moon, despite skeptics’ doubts, a NASA spokesperson told the New York Times.

“We’re at a pivotal moment, and in some ways, it feels like a dream sequence,” Niki Werkheiser, the director of technology maturation at NASA, told the outlet.

“In other ways, it feels like it was inevitable that we would get here.”

The mission, named Artemis, will send four humans to orbit the moon in November 2024, followed by the first humans landing on the moon in more than half a century a year later.

“We’ve got all the right people together at the right time with a common goal, which is why I think we’ll get there,” added Werkheiser.

“Everybody is so ready to take this step together, so if we get our capabilities developed, there’s no reason it’s not possible.”

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Images from NASA show what life could be like for the modern lunar resident.

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More than half a century after Buzz Aldrin took a “giant leap for mankind,” NASA’s Artemis mission could bring more people to the moon’s surface.

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NASA’s futuristic lunar lodgings are being designed by cutting-edge architecture firms Bjarke Ingels Group and SEArch+ (Space Exploration Architecture), who have been charged with creating structures out of a never-before-forged material: moon matter — fragments of dust, rocks and other minerals found on the crater-ridden surface. In theory, homes built from lunar resources will allow the buildings to brave the hazardous conditions on Earth’s satellite.

The buildings will also be 3-D printed in part with the help of Icon, a Texas company that has begun printing homes and received more than $57 million in funding, CBS News reports. Eventually, they hope to bring or build a printer to operate on the moon and further human colonization.

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“We’re at a pivotal moment, and in some ways it feels like a dream sequence,” said Werkheiser.

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“There’s no Home Depot up there,” Patrick Suermann, interim dean of Texas A&M’s School of Architecture, told the Times. His team of university researchers have partnered with NASA to create robots to help build the lunar shelter.

“So you either have to know how to use what’s up there or send everything you need,” Suermann said.

NASA’s out-of-this-world news comes amid a space race for interstellar tourism from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.

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