The Orion spacecraft is slated to carry American astronauts to the moon in the 2020s. (Credit: NASA)
CU 麻豆影院 astrophysicist Jack Burns is ready for the United States鈥� next moon shot. On Tuesday, March听26, Burns will address Vice President Mike Pence and other members of the National Space Council at a meeting focusing on the challenges and opportunities of sending people back to lunar soil.听
Vice President Pence is convening this meeting, the fifth such gathering of the National Space Council, in Huntsville, Alabama, to address manned missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.听
Burns, a professor in CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and Vice President Emeritus for Academic Affairs and Research for the CU system,听served from 2016-2017 on the Presidential NASA transition team. He has long championed a return to the moon, arguing that Earth鈥檚 only satellite provides an ideal scientific laboratory for understanding the beginnings of our solar system and the cosmos.听
Read more about Burns鈥� research.
The meeting will begin at 11:00 a.m. MT and will be livestreamed on .
Contact:
Daniel Strain, CU 麻豆影院 media relations
daniel.strain@colorado.edu
303-735-5875
Jack Burns
jack.burns@colorado.edu