News about Jim Bridenstine

On Nasa's last lunar mission, astronom Gene Cernan paused for one last look at the Moon from the surface before scaling the ladder and closing the hatch. The commander of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 had a solemn message from space for mankind: "I take Man's last step from the surface, back to home for a few months, but we suspect not too long into the future: "I believe that Man's destiny has forged Man's destiny of tomorrow." Cernan was angry that humans never mustered the political will to return and he was left with the name 'Last Man on the Moon'' until his death aged 82 in 2017.

According to NASA, the launch of the world's most powerful rocket for a mission to the moon is scheduled to reconvene on Saturday at 2:17 p.m. eastern time, with a two-hour window.

According to two former NASA scientists, Russia has been a frustrating space partner to the US for a decade, and America's approach toward the country has been'schizophrenic.' Both Jim Bridenstine and Charles Bolden referred to a tense link with the Vladimir Putin-led world and warned that officials should carefully look at NASA's foreign relations during the multi-year Artemis program before setting foot on the moon. 'I will tell you that our nation's policies against Russia, when you think about spaceflight, is schizophrenic,' Bridenstine, who supervised NASA from April 2018 to January 2021, said during a livestreamed event at Arizona State University on Monday that coincided with the space agency's planned launch of Artemis 1.