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Nasa’s administrator Jim Bridenstine has confirmed that the space agency is on track to head back to the moon in a speech to employees this week.
Mr Bridenstine gave a speech following the confirmation of Nasa’s overall budget of $21 billion – enough to send humans back to the moon and set its sights on going to Mars. ‘For the first time in over 10 years, we have money in this budget for a return to the Moon with humans,’ Bridenstine said. Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks about the upcoming year’s budget during an address to the workers at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida
‘I’m talking human-rated landers, compatible with Gateway, that can go back and forth to the surface of the moon.Nasa has a plan in place to visit the moon with unmanned craft by 2020. And by 2028 it wants to have an established presence on the lunar surface.
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