Humans are on course to be living and even working on the moon by 2030, a NASA official told BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg program.
Howard Hu, the head of the U.S. agency's Orion lunar spacecraft program, said astronauts could stay on the celestial object for extended periods of time by the end of this decade.
"Certainly, in this decade, we are going to have people living for durations, depending on how long we will be on the surface. They will have habitats, they will have rovers on the ground," he told the BBC. "We are going to be sending people down to the surface, and they are going to be living on that surface and doing science," he added.
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