NASA "wants to put people on Mars by 2033" after a crazy race

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NASA's budget includes a new space station called Lunar Gateway, which will orbit the moon by the mid-2020s.

NASA had originally planned to put people on the moon by 2028, but the Trump administration has suggested a new deadline, that of 2024.

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Mike Pence said last month: "Some will say it's too difficult, it's too risky, it's too expensive. But the same thing was said in 1962. '

At a congressional hearing, Jim Bridenstine said, "We can climb to Mars landing by heading for the moon landing (until 2024).

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"We must learn to live and work in another world. The moon is the best place to prove these abilities and technologies. The sooner we can achieve this goal, the sooner we can go to Mars. "

Chair Eddie Bernice Johnson said: "He would like America to continue its efforts to achieve the ambitious and challenging goal of landing astronauts on Mars, and if the Moon is an essential intermediate step, I would also favorable to such a mission.

"However, I am not ready to cannibalize the rest of NASA's program or force it to take reckless risks or make short-sighted plans to simply meet an arbitrary deadline."

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