NASA announced its next mission on the Moon – 14/05/2019

The mission that NASA intends to conduct in 2024 to return to a human mission on the Moon already bears a name. He will call himself "Artemis", as announced by the US Space Agency.

Daughter of Zeus and twin sister of Apollo, Artemis is the Greek goddess of hunting, forests and animals. Apollo was precisely the name of the NASA program that made possible the arrival of Man on the moon in 1969.

"Artemis: twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the Moon.Now, the name of our mission back # Moon2024 NASA astronauts on the surface of the Moon by 2024, including the first woman and the next man", said the US agency via Twitter.

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On Monday, US President Donald Trump asked Congress to add $ 1,600 million to NASA's budget "go back to the moon and go to Mars".

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Demand for budget increases comes two months after US Vice President Mike Pence announced that would reduce NASA's deadline to four years to bring astronauts back to the moon.

"Under my administration, we will restore the greatness of NASA and we will return to the moon, we will go to Mars, I will update my budget to include an additional $ 1.6 billion so that we can return to space in a significant way", said Trump on his Twitter account.

This would entail an expense to NASA of approximately $ 22,600 million for fiscal year 2020. According to documents from the US agency, the increase in budget will go to a large extent to the research and development of a lunar landing system.

Source: EuropaPress.

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