South Korea launches its own NASA

Determined to join the ranks of global space powers, South Korea today officially launched a new agency to take charge of the effort. The primary mandate of the new Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA)—modeled on the United States’s NASA—is to build up the country’s commercial launch and satellite capabilities. But the government has also tasked the agency with landing spacecraft on the Moon by 2032, on Mars by 2045, and fostering leading edge science. Read More at Science