Trump's Nasa budget: flying 'Jetson cars' and a return to the moon

Most of those goals, if realized, would come after the end of the Trump administration, which has allocated little of its budget for NasaThe Trump administration unveiled its 2019 budget for Nasa on Monday, promising an outpost on the moon, “Jetson cars” and new attempts to cut funding for the international space station, earth science and astrophysics.Robert Lightfoot, Nasa ’s acting administrator, said on Monday that Nasa will move forward with plans to create a new space station around the moon, a base long called the Deep Space Gateway, but renamed the Lunar Orbit Platform-Gateway.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 12, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Alan Yuhas in New York Tags: Nasa US news Donald Trump Trump administration Source Type: news