NASA needs a huge budget growth because of the Moon plans. Why is Congress biting?

Expand / NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine claims that competition is very great for your Artemis Moon program. (charge: NASA)

The chances of NASA sending people back to the Moon from 2024 are very long –not, but rather close.

Possibly the largest near-term impediment the area agency faces is financing. Especially, NASA needs an extra $3.2 billion in financial year 2021 allowing contractors to start building a couple of landers to shoot astronauts down into the Moon’s surface by a top lunar orbit. That is a 12 per cent increase to NASA’s budget all around.

The 2021 financial year starts in each week, on October 1. The US Congress recently passed a”continuing resolution” which is going to continue to keep the government financed through December 11. By that moment, following the 2020 election, it’s estimated the House and Senate could agree to a budget that could finance priorities for the rest of the financial year.