Three Ways to the Moon: NASA will soon narrow the possible strategies for landing people on the moon

In March 2019, Vice President Mike Pence instructed NASA to do something rarely seen in space projects: move up a schedule. Speaking at a meeting of the National Space Council, Pence noted that NASA's plans for returning humans to the moon called for a landing in 2028. “That's just not good enough. We're better than that,” he said. Instead, he announced that the new goal was to land humans on the moon by 2024.