United States Space Agency (NASA) to ensure themselves will return to run manned missions to the moon. This is ascertained after the US government approved budget allowing them to do so.
In the latest US government funding budget, NASA will receive about US $ 19.9 billion for 2019. Donald Trump's government emphasizes specifically that NASA is more focused on exploring the Moon and Mars in the long term.
NASA has previously stated explicitly the intention of sending astronauts back to the Moon. But the scale this time is different than the exploration of the Moon in the Apollo era.
In the Cold War era, the US and Russia competed to send humans to the Moon. The era became the busiest moment for the two superpowers in space exploration. NASA at least sent six missions in the period July 1969 - December 1972 which led astronauts to set foot on the Moon. After that period, NASA only sends unmanned rides.
They intend to build the habitat of a manned crew there to investigate the mineral potential on the Moon's surface.
"We will build the space infrastructure in long-term exploration by launching spacecraft to orbit the Moon as the Moon Orbit Gate," said Robert Lightfoot, NASA's chief executive officer.
Lightfoot promised in 2030 that NASA could take samples of the surface of Mars and examine its content while searching for valuable minerals on the Moon continues.
In addition, he also promised a new breakthrough would come from his agency like a drone that is connected to a mass transportation network, in other words a flying car.
"Urban urban mobility will be a commonly-found transportation later - you'll see Jetson cars," Lightfoot said as reported by NASA's official website.
According to The New York Times report, NASA's new budget will have a significant impact on overall space research. In addition to the exploration of the Moon and Mars, the Trump government has withdrawn its support to several areas of research, one of which is climate change.
The space education budget post to children is discarded. The infrared telescope project is off. Finally, funding support for the space station (International Space Station / ISS) will also end in 2025 later.
It has become public knowledge that the Trump government does not believe in climate change caused by human activities. It does not make it difficult for them to cancel five specific NASA missions about climate.
In the case of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), it is the failure of mankind to have a space telescope that can see the sky 100 times stronger than Hubble's glorious telescope.
As for the ISS, Trump was originally keen to privatize the management of the station. The plan was difficult to realize because the ownership of the ISS is not in US hands alone, but shared with Europe, Japan, Russia, and Canada. But the US has the largest contribution compared to other countries
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