The administration also expressed support for partnerships with commercial companies in space exploration, although details will not be available until NASA's full report is published.
"NASA’s top-priority mission is to return American astronauts to the moon by 2024 and build a sustainable presence on the lunar surface as the first step on a journey that will take America to Mars," the NASA section of an OMB document outlining the administration's 2021 budget request read."The budget redirects funds from lower-priority programs to fulfill the President’s promise to get Americans back to the moon.
The administration also expressed support for partnerships with commercial companies in space exploration, although details will not be available until NASA's full report is published. Also notably missing from the OMB summary document is reference to planetary science missions, with the exception of Mars.Mars Sample Return mission
, which NASA would like to follow its Mars 2020 rover to bring pieces of the Red Planet into Earth's laboratories. In addition, the OMB document introduces a new Mars Ice Mapper mission that could help NASA prioritize landing sites for astronauts. It's important to remember that the president's budget request is just that, a request. NASA's funding comes directly from Congress, which isn't obligated to match the request in any way. Congress hasn't shown much enthusiasm for several of the president's space priorities, particularly the Artemis program.
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