Why NASA is going back to the Moon

Why ought to NASA repeat what it did a period agone, particularly since astronauts won't really tread the moon for many years, and by that point, NASA can have spent $100 billion?

An image created by the Narrow-Angle Camera onboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The renewal of focus on the moon is set to provide scientists with a bonanza of data. (Image credit: NASA via The New York Times)

That is the shibboleth that NASA is mistreatment within the lead-up to the debut flight of its phase of the moon rocket, which might launch as early as Monday at 8:33 a.m. civil time. it's a phrase perennial by agency officers, value-added as a hashtag on social media postings, and declared on banners adorned around the launch website at the Kennedy house Center in Sunshine State.