‘Moon to Mars—That’s our outlook’: NASA astronaut Suni Williams on her hopes for the future

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"As soon as we can get it going, we would want to start having some type of presence on the moon sustainably," she told Fortune.

Officials ultimately decided to return the Starliner to Earth uncrewed last September, while William and Wilmore, now fully integrated into the crew of Expedition 72 at the ISS, stayed in space.

It's crazy how much computing power can be in a phone, for example—much more than the computers on the space shuttle. All these types of technological advancements, materials, chemicals, new ideas of using fuels for rocket engines—that’s all sort of been opened up as we've opened up to the commercial side.

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Author / Journalist: Carolyn Barber

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