NASA局长透露新的科学计划

In an interview, Jared Isaacman says agency may accelerate robotic Moon landings and could tackle a new Mars mission in 2028 PAUL VOOSEN N ew NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, like many of his predecessors, is pre- occupied with human exploration and returning astronauts to the Moon under the Artemis pro- gram. Late last month, he announced the agency would accelerate launches of its costly Moon rocket, the Space Launch System, to more than once a year, in an effort to get astronauts to the Moon’s surface in 2028. But Isaacman—a high school drop- out who became a tech billionaire—is also eager to talk science. In an inter- view with Science last week, he teased two forthcoming planetary science announcements. …