NASA will need billions of dollars more to meet the 2024 deadline. NASA’s current budget is $21.5 billion, and the Trump administration is seeking another $1.6 billion for the current fiscal year to fund its lunar return, a program called Artemis. The proposed landing at the lunar south pole-the same region China is eyeing for its research station - would be a precursor to a sustained presence by 2028. and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin LLC to make it happen. boots back there by 2024, shaving four years off the previous timetable and empowering NASA to use contractors such as Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Kennedy’s 1961 call to put an American on the moon by the end of that decade. When Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface, they fulfilled President John F. It’s plotting lunar missions to bring back crust samples, and it intends to send a probe to Mars by next year. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.Ĭhina already is a galactic pioneer after landing the first probe on the far side of the moon in January. “I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the next voice from the moon is speaking Mandarin,” said Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor and space-policy expert at the U.S. It is somewhat surprising that man first landed on the Moon all the way back in 1969, and after launching successive crewed landing. A moon shot is intended to open the heavens for more-distant missions as China strives to be a dominant space power by the time the Communist Party celebrates its centennial anniversary of rule in 2049. Japan announces plans to put a person on the Moon before the ongoing decade comes to an end, bestowing the selected astronaut with the distinction of being the first non-American to set foot on the lunar surface. Vice President Mike Pence said in March.Ĭhinese officials are just as emphatic about the importance of the space program to their national identity. “Make no mistake about it: We’re in a space race today, just as we were in the 1960s, and the stakes are even higher,” U.S. With the U.S.-China rivalry extending into the cosmos, Trump wants to create a military branch called the Space Force and accelerate NASA’s timetable for returning to the moon.
and the Soviet Union that spawned the Apollo program in the 1960s. Those ambitions trouble President Donald Trump’s administration, which is locked in trade and technology-transfer disputes with China that raise fears of a new Cold War like the one between the U.S.
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