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posted by martyb on Thursday September 24 2020, @08:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the "De-la-Terre-à-la-Lune" dept.

NASA lays out $28 billion plan to return astronauts to the moon in 2024:

NASA officials released a nearly five-year, $28 billion plan Monday to return astronauts to the surface of the moon before the end of 2024, but the agency's administrator said the "aggressive" timeline set by the Trump administration last year hinges on Congress approving $3.2 billion in the next few months to kick-start development of new human-rated lunar landers.

The plan unveiled Monday contained few new details not previously disclosed by NASA. It assumes crews will launch on NASA's Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket, fly to the moon's vicinity on an Orion capsule, then transfer into a commercially-developed lunar lander to ferry the astronauts to and from the lunar surface.

NASA released a new overview document [(pdf)] Monday describing the agency's approach to landing astronauts on the moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. The program, named Artemis, encompasses the SLS, Orion, Human Landing Systems, and the Gateway, a human-tended platform in lunar orbit that will eventually serve as a staging point for missions to the moon.


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  • (Score: 2, Redundant) by Mojibake Tengu on Thursday September 24 2020, @09:34AM (1 child)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Thursday September 24 2020, @09:34AM (#1056078) Journal

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Costs [wikipedia.org]

    Total 25.4 billion

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @10:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @10:00AM (#1056080)

    https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-apollo [planetary.org]

    The United States spent $28 billion to land men on the Moon between 1960 and 1973, or approximately $283 billion when adjusted for inflation. Spending peaked in 1966, three years before the first Moon landing. The total amount spent on NASA during this period was $49.4 billion ($482 billion adjusted).