Apparently, plans to put US astronauts on the Moon by the late 2020s weren't ambitious enough. Vice President Pence announced at the National Space Council that the US now planned to return people to the Moon by 2024, about four years earlier than expected. He argued that the US"must remain first in space" this century for the sake of the economy, national security and writing the"rules and values of space" by establishing a more permanent presence.
Pence agreed that the timeline was short but maintained that it was possible, pointing to the Apollo 11 landing as an example of how quickly the US can move when it's motivated. He suggested that it might require using private rockets if the Space Launch System isn't ready in time. There's one main problem with the plans: it's not clear the money is there to make this happen. Although the proposed fiscal 2020 budget did increase NASA's funding slightly to $21 billion, astrophysicist Katie Mack noted that it would represent a much smaller fraction of the federal budget than the Apollo program represented in the 1960s.
Waste of taxpayers money
No money for health insurance. No money for the autistic. No money for the disabled. No money for the poor...but lots of money for the BillionaireTaxCut AND a 1960s plan to go to the moon. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Mike_Pence.
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