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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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.
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
