The Trump administration is seeking a big boost to NASA's annual funding in order to fulfill its mission to put a man and woman on the moon by 2024
New York The Trump administration is seeking a big boost to NASA's annual funding in order to fulfill its mission to put a man and woman on the moon by 2024.
In its annual budget request released Monday, the White House asked Congress to allocate more than $25 billion for NASA in the 2021 fiscal year, with $12.4 billion earmarked specifically for the moon landing program. That would be another significant increase to the space agency's financing, which has seen its annual budget climb from less than $20 billion in 2017, the year President Donald Trump took office, to $22.6 billion for the 2020 fiscal year, which ends on September 30.
— Jim Bridenstine February 10, 2020 The White House's proposal gives lawmakers a more detailed look at how much money the Artemis program would cost and how the space agency plans to spend it. It asks that $3.4 billion, for example, be set aside for developing a lunar Human Landing System,"the first directed funding for such a system since Apollo," according to the budget document.
— NASA February 10, 2020 President Trump has raised questions about his own support for the program."For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon," the president wrote in a tweet last June, sending shockwaves through the space industry."They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars .
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