NASA Aims for U.S. to Be First to Put Nuclear Reactor on the Moon: ‘To Have a Base on the Moon, We Need Energy’

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy , the interim NASA administrator, proclaimed that the U.S. needs to “get our act together” when it comes to the ongoing race to the moon and Mars against other nations. To do this, Duffy , 53, shared during a press conference NASA’s plan to make the U.S. the first to put a nuclear reactor on the moon with an aim of by 2030. “We’re in a race to the moon, in a race with China to the moon, and to have a base on the moon,...