Congress is furious that NASA does not yet have a lunar plan

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In August, the Trump Administration asked NASA to send an astronaut to the Moon by 2024, four years earlier than planned.

This accelerated schedule put NASA in an unexpected impasse, as it meant that the space agency had to quickly find a way to remove four months of fat from its plans. This work did not work well, according to the Houston Chronicle – suggesting that the accelerated timetable may have been too ambitious.

NASA has still not tabled the budget proposal that Congress asked it to submit by March, and federal officials now want answers.

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NASA Administrator Bill Gerstenmaier said the missing budget was not ready for a hearing before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology on Wednesday. He added that he was waiting several weeks before the NASA budget was settled.

"We are flying blind," Kendra Horn, representative of Oklahoma, told the audience, adding that the acceleration over the last four years had left the NASA "is struggling with an ambitious plan and preparing a budget amendment that has not yet been tabled. "

"The lack of clear planning so far is not a way to run a human exploration program," she said.

READ MORE: Congressmen criticize NASA for lack of lunar plans, say the agency is "struggling"[[[[Houston Chronicle]

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