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Hi, I'm Sam Hawley, coming to you from Gadigal Land. This is ABC News Daily. It won't be cheap, but it is feasible that tourists could soon be traversing around the moon. And not only that, there could be a permanent human presence there. That's because in its latest mission, NASA is betting on finding enough water on the lunar surface to make it habitable. Today, The Washington Post's space reporter Christian Davenport, on how that could then lead us to Mars.
Companies like Intuitive Machines and Astrobotic and also rely on international partners from all over the world as part of what are called the the Artemis Accords. And what's also driving it is some of the same old forces that we had during the Apollo era, and that's this geopolitical tension. In this case, it's a little bit of a space race or maybe more than a little bit of a space race with China.China successfully launched the core module of its space station into orbit.
That's because, in its latest mission, NASA's betting on finding enough water on the lunar surface to make it habitable. Today the Washington Post's space reporter, Christian Davenport on how that could then lead us to Mars.Subscribe to ABC News Daily
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