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before sending astronauts sometime in the 2030s. Russia and the European Space Agency have their own concepts in development, though with uncertain funding.
NASA will soon be joining the robot Moon parade — much sooner than it will be sending astronauts even under the most optimistic assumptions. Last fall, the agency announced that it is allocating up to $2.6 billion for private companies to deliver payloads to the Moon over the next decade, with nine companies eligible to bid for the contracts. In essence, NASA is putting up the money to finance private lunar taxi services.
Along with driving down the cost of human space exploration, robotic missions should clarify the value of returning to the Moon. I won't get into the fundamental question of whether we should be spending money on space exploration at all If you believe, as I do, that space exploration is well worth the modest amount our society spends on it, then the relevant question becomes whether we have important things to learn by going back to the Moon. In this case, the answer is extremely simple: Yes, we do. The Moon deserves our attention, and deserves far more attention than it has received over the past few decades.
A flood of recent discoveries make that abundantly clear. NASA's LRO has shown that the Moon is full of fascinating, complex geology. It has
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