NASA should focus on exploring Mars, Trump tweeted today, appearing to back off his administration’s push to put humans back on the moon by 2024
President Donald Trump on Friday appeared to back off the goal his administration set just several months ago to put humans back on the moon by 2024.“For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon — We did that 50 years ago,” Trump wrote.
“Some will say it’s too hard, it’s too risky, it’s too expensive, but the same was said back in 1962,” Pence said in Huntsville, Ala., at the fifth meeting of the National Space Council — referring to the year when President John F. Kennedy gave his "we choose to go to the moon" speech. Just last month, Trump announced his administration was asking for an additional $1.6 billion in its fiscal 2020 budget request to accelerate the moon mission.
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