National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s ( Nasa ) future task to the Moon will be named Artemis, the US space agency publicized on Monday, though it’s still seeking for the funds to render the trip happen by its accelerated 2024 due date. In March, US President Donald Trump’s management moved the date for the next American lunar task up by 4 years from its unique artist aim of 2028 while pledging to get a woman astronaut to the Moon’s surface at first.
Nasa Administrator Jim Bridenstine said to reporters the agency would need an additional $1.6 billion to pay for the latest ground and space vehicles required to meet the deadline. "This extra investment, I want to be very clear, is a downpayment on Nasa’s hard work to land humans on the Moon by 2024,” he declared.
Bridenstine declared the task was named Artemis after the Greek mythological goddess of the Moon and twin sister to Apollo, the namesake of the program that sent 12 American astronauts to the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Nasa’s entire annual budget is approximately $21 .5 billion, and in the 2019 fiscal yr, the agent spent about $4.5 billion on creating the Orion spacecraft, the Space Launch System ( SLS ) heavy rocket and a new lunar orbital mini-station, 3 components essential to the Artemis task.
But most experts and lawmakers are concerned that Nasa cannot meet the accelerated deadline, especially provided the main delays in the development of the SLS, which is being built by aerospace giant Boeing. Asked how much the new task would cost as a whole, Bridenstine demurred, informing a reporter: "I would love to tell you that .”
