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#InternationalSpaceStation #ISS  #Moon #NASA #Spacex  HOUSTON — Jim Bridenstine wants to make sure that there is never another day when humans are not in space.  "In fact," the NASA administrator said, "we want lots of humans in space." Bridenstine, who  became the space agency's chief in April , recently sat down with Space.com and other reporters during a visit to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, during which he shared what he saw as his priority for NASA going forward. [ These 9 Astronauts Will Fly the 1st Flights on SpaceX and Boeing Spaceships ] "When you look back at history, look back at the end of the Apollo program, 1972 when we didn't go back to the moon... you look back and there was a period of time thereafter Apollo and before the space shuttles when we had a gap of human spaceflight capability," Bridenstine said. "And then you go forward and look at the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011, and now we'

Double Time Two NASA scientists just shared fascinating new details about the agency’s  planned Moon mission . During Wednesday’s annual meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, John Connolly and Niki Werkheiser said that NASA plans for the next two astronauts on the Moon’s surface to post up for 6.5 days, according to a new  Ars Technica   story  — twice as long as any NASA astronauts before them. Long Walks on the Moon Connolly and Werkheiser said that the astronauts may conduct as many as four spacewalks while on the Moon’s surface. During those walks, they’ll sample water ice and perform other scientific observations. The pair also shared details on an unpressurized rover NASA plans to send to the Moon’s surface ahead of the crewed mission. NASA is designing the rover so that astronauts will be able to control it remotely, according to Connolly and Werkheiser — a capability  Ars  described as “like Tesla’s ‘Smart Summon’ feature, only on the Moon.”