NASA will put a World Cup soccer ball on the moon if Team USA wins the championship, officials announced on June 30.
Administrator Jared Isaacman and Moon Base Program Executive Carlos García-Galán made the pledge during the first of what Isaacman said would be monthly updates on the space agency’s lunar ambitions.
The event featured the unveiling of four new lunar landers that will carry payloads of emerging technologies that will be crucial for a successful moon base. But one of those landers might carry a soccer ball.
“What do you think the chances are here, if America wins at all, that we can find some volume here on one of these landers to put, to put one of the soccer balls in,” Isaacman asked García-Galán….