NASA’s Return To Moon Top Priority For Acting Administrator | Aviation Week Network

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Irene Klotz
September 30, 2025

Sean Duffy

Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA

SYDNEY—Despite the temporary nature of his job at NASA, acting Administrator Sean Duffy is pressing to keep the U.S. space agency tightly focused on returning astronauts to the Moon, possibly as early as 2027 and hopefully ahead of a planned lunar landing by China. “We can’t waste a day,” Duffy said…

Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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