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Trump's NASA budget will say goodbye to the Space Station and send us back to the moon

January 27, 2018

It should come as no shock that President Donald Trump wants NASA to send its astronauts to the moon. 

Trump revived the National Space Council with Vice President Mike Pence as its head in part to redirect NASA toward sending humans back to the moon for the first time in decades. 

But in order to do that, they need money.

NASA’s budget isn’t unlimited, obviously, so the administration will need to set priorities when examining where the agency’s relatively small resources go in the future. 

According to a leaked document first reported by The Verge and later obtained by Mashable, those fiscal priorities will likely begin to move away from the International Space Station and start looking toward the moon.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Trump's NASA budget will say goodbye to the Space Station and send us back to the moon

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