NASA is still targeting the moon's south pole for a crewed landing in 2024 — but that timeline will be difficult to achieve if Congress doesn't open its purse strings, and fast, agency chief Jim Bridenstine says.
But he said that NASA will continue asking for the $3.2 billion, stressing that getting the full amount is"critically important" to achieving the 2024 crewed landing.
That continuing resolution would probably expire sometime around Christmas, he added, at which point Congress would enact an omnibus appropriations bill — or another short-term continuing resolution, which would expire around March 2021 or so.If Congress enacts an omnibus appropriations bill before the end of the year, and that bill provides the full $3.2 billion for crewed lunar lander development in fiscal 2021, NASA will remain on target for the ambitious 2024 target date, Bridenstine said.
"If they push the funding off, our goal will be to get to the moon at the earliest possible opportunity," he said, explaining that going fast reduces Artemis'"political risks," such as cancellation by officials impatient with the pace of progress. And all of this work will lead to something even bigger, if NASA's plans come to fruition. Agency officials have said that everything done with the program will help NASA and its partners learn the skills and techniques needed to get astronauts to Mars, which NASA aims to accomplish in the 2030s.
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