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 …
President sets policy objectives. Congress decides whether to provide money. Headline is no different than saying Obama wanted to go to asteroids, then Mars.