![]() That includes $3.2 billion for planetary exploration, with initial funding for a Mars sample return mission, and $2.25 billion for a new multi-satellite Earth science initiative to learn more about climate change and its effects. The largest single category in the budget is science operations totaling $7.93 billion. ![]() The $24.8 billion budget request represents a 6.6 percent boost over 2021 and includes $6.88 billion for the Artemis moon program and $4 billion for space operations, which covers the International Space Station and commercial crew and cargo missions to the lab complex. But I think we have to be brutally realistic, that history would tell us, because space development is so hard, that there could be delays to that schedule for the first demonstration flight of landing humans and returning them safely to Earth.” Will they occur? I can’t answer that question. When you go farther and farther away from the Earth with new technologies, we have seen historically, delays. “As you see the development of various space systems in the past, there have been delays. The Biden administration’s $24.8 billion fiscal 2022 budget request for NASA will keep the agency on track to send the the first woman and the next man to the moon as early as 2024, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Friday, but he warned that target date is far from certain. “We will use what we learn on and around the Moon to take the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars,” NASA said on its website.STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA Administrator Bill Nelson during a Senate confirmation hearing April 21. That crew will include the first woman and the first person of colour on the moon. Under Artemis, NASA plans to send a crewed mission to orbit the moon in 2024 and to make a crewed landing near the lunar south pole by 2025. The war of words comes as NASA has also launched a moon exploration programme called Artemis. “The US side has constantly constructed a smear campaign against China’s normal and reasonable outer space endeavours, and China firmly opposes such irresponsible remarks,” he said.Ĭhina has always promoted the building of a shared future for humanity in outer space and opposed its weaponisation and any arms race in space, he added. Zhao, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, said Nelson’s remarks were not the first time that NASA chiefs have “ignored the facts and spoken irresponsibly about China”. When Bild asked what military purposes China may pursue in space, he replied: “Well, what do you think is happening on the Chinese space station? They are learning how to destroy other people’s satellites. Nelson said China’s space programme was a military one and claimed that it had stolen ideas and technology from others. It is also working on a three-module space station called Tiangong that will rival the International Space Station (ISS), from which it is barred as US law bans NASA from sharing data with China. It also plans to launch rockets powerful enough to send astronauts to the moon towards the end of this decade and has also set its sights on a Mars sample-return mission around 2030. It made its first lunar uncrewed landing in 2013 and is planning uncrewed missions to the moon’s south pole some time this decade. “We must be very concerned that China is landing on the moon and saying: ‘It’s ours now and you stay out’,” he said, referring to Beijing’s moon exploration plans.Ĭhina, which has stepped up the pace of its space programme in the past decade, has made exploration of the moon a focus. Nelson, who heads the United States’ space agency, had told the German newspaper Bild in an interview published on Saturday that he was worried about China’s space ambitions. Zhao Lijian, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, told reporters on Monday that China firmly opposed NASA Administrator Bill Nelson’s “irresponsible remarks”. ![]() China has criticised warnings from the chief of NASA that claimed Beijing may take over the moon as part of a military space programme. ![]()
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