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Mike Wehner
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- NASA's plans to return to the Moon by 2024 have been criticized and doubted since they were first announced.
- Now that the Trump administration is gone, the acting NASA Administrator is trying to determine whether the schedule is still feasible.
- A number of setbacks and the coronavirus pandemic have affected the timeline, meaning that humans returning to the lunar surface may happen later than planned.
Ever since the Moon 2024 plan was announced at the behest of the Trump Administration, critics have wondered how it would be possible for NASA to pull it off. NASA was already planning on returning humans to the lunar surface, but by demanding that NASA makes it happen by 2024, the Trump administration was cutting roughly four years off of the original timeline. That's a stiff deadline, but Trump-appointed NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine bent over backward in an attempt to meet the date.
Now, with Trump out of the White House and new leadership set to take over NASA's top position, the agency is rethinking whether or not it makes sense to push for the 2024 date after all. As Politico reports, acting NASA administrator Steve Jurczyk is working with other top officials to determine if the timeline should be pushed back and, if so, by how much.
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NASA might not make it to the Moon by 2024 after all originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 17:47:45 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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