Poll: Americans Want NASA To Focus More On Asteroid Impacts, Less On Getting To Mars

Visitors look at a model of a Saturn V rocket and its launch umbilical tower, which were used during the Apollo moon-landing program, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Fifty years ago this July 20, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon.

American attitudes toward space exploration and NASA’s priorities have changed ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

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Source: NPR Space News