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Space

NASA Leader: Potential FY’20 Continuing Resolution Would Delay 2024 Moon Landing Goal

By Vivienne Machi

Monday, April 1st, 2019

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NASA Leader: Potential FY’20 Continuing Resolution Would Delay 2024 Moon Landing Goal

Artist's illustration of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). Dynamic Concepts performs structural dynamics analysis for the SLS. Photo: NASA.

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…

Congress

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Budget

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Congress

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Budget

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