If only public opinion/interest want such a fickle thing. We never should have abandoned the moon to begin with. Then again, politicians probably spend more in a regular presidential campaign than the do in funding NASA. So much for setting priorities straight.
Last year, NASA was given an urgent task to do by 2024: get out of the space station business. So far, little progress. Now, NASA has another 2024 project from the White House: return to the moon.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/science/trump-moon-nasa.html …
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Elections are expensive, but not that expensive. 2016 presidential campaign, including primaries was $2.4 billion. R&D on SLS/Orion is on the order of $4 billion/year. NASA is > $20B/year. https://wapo.st/2M71ji9
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This begs the question whether having a space station might be useful in travelling to the moon.
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Not International Space Station. Its orbit is highly tilted and thus not good for aiming spaceships at the moon.
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An average person will always find a reason why they can't achieve a task,An excellent person always says we can get it done and they always get it done.! "The power of excellence".
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As I'm sure you're an excellent person, over the holiday weekend, please invent an infinite energy machine and implement an equitable peace plan between the Israelis and Palestinians.
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I think the current budget only allows them to get paperclips...
#tbh#littlethingsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Unlikely according to who?
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This is a news analysis by the reporter (me). The article goes into some detail about the factors (cost, compressed timeline, politics) that make 2024 unlikely, in my analysis. Not impossible, but unlikely.
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no, dummies. NASA will put astronauts on the moon by '24 (if it happens) with $ that congress allocates it for that task. funny how the NYT & assorted leftists scream about trump being a dictator, then (like this headline) give him power he doesn't have. personally, i could.....
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President sets policy objectives. Congress decides whether to provide money. Headline is no different than saying Obama wanted to go to asteroids, then Mars.
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