NASA’s chief said Tuesday that the agency’s proposed funding increase in President TrumpDonald John TrumpLawsuit alleges Trump campaign paid women less than men Graham encourages Donald Trump Jr. to plead the 5th Crunch time for Senate disaster aid talks MORE‘s budget is a “good start” for returning to the moon, the Associated Press reported.
“This is a good out-of-the-gate first start, a very honest proposal from the administration that keeps us all together, moving forward,” Jim BridenstineJames (Jim) Frederick BridenstineThis is not the time to abandon NASA’s Space Launch System Can America return to the moon by 2024? Why NASA announced and then canceled an all-woman spacewalk MORE said during an employee town hall.
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The $1.6 billion in Trump’s budget is enough for 2020, he added. But more money will be needed in the years ahead to land “the next man and the first woman” at the south pole of the moon by 2024.
NASA’s new project in named Artemis, the twin sister of Apollo, which was the name of America’s first successful moon mission.
The space agency wants its moonwalkers to reflect today’s more diverse astronauts, which is why they named the new program after Apollo’s sister, according to AP.
“I have a daughter, she’s 11 years old, and I want her to see herself in the same position that our current, very diverse astronaut corps currently sees itself, having the opportunity to go to the moon,” Bridenstine said. “In the 1960s, young ladies didn’t have the opportunity to see themselves in that role. Today, they do.”
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Trump’s budget still needs congressional approval.