
NASA is dependent upon Congress working together to pass a fiscal year 2020 budget on time – and providing the agency with additional funds – to meet its projected timeline to field the Space Launch System (SLS) by 2020 and land on the moon in 2024, Administrator Jim Bridenstine said April 1. Speaking during a town hall meeting at NASA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Bridenstine said the agency will require “additional means” to meet its current goals, and he intends…