NASA's administrator said that the organization hoped to return to the Moon by 2024, if Congress approves the $28 billion budgetNASA on Monday revealed its latest plan to return astronauts to the Moon in 2024, and estimated the cost of meeting that deadline at $28 billion, $16 billion of which would be spent on the lunar landing module. The $28 billion would cover the budgetary years of 2021-25. Barack Obama cancelled plans for a manned Mars mission, after his predecessor spent billions of dollars on the project. If Congress approves the first tranche of $3.2 billion by Christmas, "we're still on track for a 2024 moon landing," Bridenstine said. "We have to remember during the Apollo era, we thought the moon was bone dry.

Source: Standard Digital September 22, 2020 04:52 UTC