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President Trump on Tuesday signed a bill authorizing funding for NASA while setting a new goal to send humans to Mars.
The president signed the bill in the Oval Office flanked by authors and sponsors of the bill, including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
The law, known as the NASA Transition Authorization Act, gives the space agency $19.5 billion in funding for fiscal year 2018. It also asks the agency to create a plan to send a crewed mission to Mars in the 2030s.
Lawmakers also require NASA to create ways to "extend human presence, including potential human habitation on another celestial body and a thriving space economy in the 21st Century.
NASA is receiving slightly more money than Trump requested in his 2018 budget blueprint. It included $19.1 billion for the agency, which would have been a modest funding cut.
(Short article, no more at link) http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/324988-trump-signs-nasa-funding-bill-sets-goal-of-human-on-mars
Rhiannon12866
(205,161 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)dalton99a
(81,433 posts)JHB
(37,158 posts)...and it has the best, most spectacular view -- "and don't let the government bureaucrats tell you otherwise."
Then Prima Donnie will do what he does best, make himself the center of attention.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Like, no money for NASA's climate science contributions??
JHB
(37,158 posts)...make a photo op about going to Mars, but everything else they want to do -- and which is nearer and dearer to their hearts -- undercuts what's needed to do a big project like that.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)is fed, sheltered and has healthcare?
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)Luciferous
(6,078 posts)Red Mountain
(1,730 posts)At NASA speed it will be late 2030s or early 2040s, if then.
If Elon Musk can stay in business he'll beat them by a decade.