America will not repeat its historical a small step in the foreseeable future, at least not according to NASA chief Charlie Bolen.

"NASA is not planning on a man on the moon. It will not be a primary project during my life, "said Bolden last week in Washington at a joint meeting of the Space Studies Board and the Aerospace Engineering Council, as Jeff Foust of SpacePolitics.com said. "The reason is that we can only do a limited number of things."

Instead, he said the current focus would remain on people's missions to asteroids and Mars. “We intend to do that. However, interest in the Moon is growing both in the private sector and abroad.

Last week, Russia renewed its plans for a research program on the moon. It revealed its first new mission since the Soviet Union launched Luna 24 in 1976. Russian space scientists plan a new plan to rebuild missions to the Moon, as one of the scientists said.

"Moon exploration is one of the most important points of the program," said Igor Mitrofanov of the Space Research Institute during the Microsymposium 54 on "Lunar Farside and Poles - New Exploration Targets," held in Texas on March 16-17. .

"I just want to emphasize that Russia is able to send not only an automated probe to the moon, but also a human crew," he added.

There are also several cases in the private sector that are interested in the moon. Several companies have announced plans to capture the Moon. Their main purpose is the mining of rare minerals, including titanium, platinum and helium 3, a rare helium isotope that many regard as the future of energy on Earth and in space.

Moon Express and Lunar X Prize Google are planning missions for 2015 to explore the Moon's surface.

NASA's Bolden last Thursday said he appreciated widespread interest in the Moon by other nations and said his agency would be ready to help.

"Everyone has dreams of landing humans on the moon," he said. “I told all the leaders of each partner agency that if they take the lead in sending people to the moon, NASA will be there. NASA wants to be a participant. ”

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Sueneé: It seems that NASA doesn't want to go to the moon so she doesn't have to go through the theater from the 60's and 70's. That is why she has chosen projects that may seem plausible, but are so long-term that there is no danger that there will be any of them in the next 10 years. On the other hand, it makes it clear that if someone else wants to land on the moon with a human crew, they want to be there. In other words, it makes it clear we want it under control.