State of NASA 2020 Speech Held in Front of Artemis 1

The White House has requested a $26 billion budget for NASA in 2023 to fund Artemis moon landings, Earth science and more as the agency aims to send people to Mars by 2040, NASA officials said Monday (March 28).Moon and Mars exploration, space technology and Earth science are among the priorities of the Biden administration's budget proposal, which is asking for $1.93 billion (or 8%) over the 2022 allocation NASA received. "Our goal is to apply what we've learned living and operating on the moon and continue then out into the solar system. Our plan is for humans to walk on Mars by 2040," agency administrator Bill Nelson said during his livestreamed State of NASA address Monday afternoon.

Nelson was backdropped during his speech by the agency's Artemis 1 moon rocket, atop the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than May, pending the result of a "wet dress rehearsal" countdown. Following that, if NASA's plans go forward, are an Artemis 2 round-the-moon crewed mission in 2024 and an Artemis 3 human landing mission in 2025. NASA's inspector general has said the first landing will be more likely in 2026, but even if the timeline goes to plan, the new budget documents show a three-year distance between moon landings. A published "moon to Mars planning manifest" shows the next human landing will be Artemis 5 in 2028, three years after Artemis 3. Then crewed landings are planned for 2029, 2030 and 2031 with Artemis 6, 7 and 8. It appears NASA wants to use a 2027 launch to help build out its Gateway moon space station, but it has no listed launches in 2026 for either the moon or Gateway.



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