Americans watched their country’s first moonwalk from small, fuzzy black-and-white television sets. For the generations that followed, it might come as a surprise that, even with all of the modern advancements in technology, the United States lost its lunar-landing capability half a century ago.
NASA actually hasn’t had a rocket powerful enough to send astronauts deep into space since it retired the last Saturn V in 1973.
But as of Nov.16, NASA is back in the moon business and they’ve got competition.
Source : Why NASA is going back to the moon
