Time is running out as NASA pushes to get Artemis Moon funding

NASA Lunar Exploration Program Overview. Credit: NASA.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is making yet another appeal to Congress tomorrow to secure the necessary funding for the Artemis program in its fiscal year 2021 budget. Without the funding in place by end of March 2021, Bridenstine says it will will be difficult to meet the timeline of 2024 to land American astronauts on the Moon.

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