VICE PRESIDENT PENCE WANTS AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS TO RETURN TO THE MOON BY 2024

There is a problem: the budget may not be there for that.

Apparently, plans to send American astronauts to the moon by the end of the 2020s were not ambitious enough. Vice President Pence told the National Space Council that the United States now plans to send people to the moon by 2024, roughly four years earlier than planned. He argued that the United States "must remain first in space" of this century for reasons of economy, national security and the writing of "rules and values of space" establishing a presence. More permanent.

Pence agreed that the calendar was short, but argued that it was possible, indicating the landing of Apollo 11 as an example of how quickly the United States can move when motivated. He suggested that this might require the use of private rockets if the space launch system was not ready in time.

There is a major problem with the plans: it is not clear that the money is there for this to happen. While the proposed budget for fiscal year 2020 increases NASA's funding to $ 21 billion, astrophysicist Katie Mack said it would represent a much smaller fraction of the federal budget than the Apollo program represented in the 1960s. Since the federal government has clearly increased over the decades, the cost of space travel has also increased: the government may have to spend much more to reach its goal.

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