{"id":2583,"date":"2021-11-10T17:12:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T17:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news25.org\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2021-11-10T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T17:13:02","slug":"nasa-delays-astronaut-moon-landing-to-2025-at-earliest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.news25.org\/nasa-delays-astronaut-moon-landing-to-2025-at-earliest\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA delays astronaut moon landing to 2025 at earliest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Lack of funds, legal wrangling cause NASA to postpone plans for first astronaut moon landing in more than 50 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The United States space agency, NASA, has delayed sending astronauts back on the moon until 2025 at the earliest \u2013 jettisoning a deadline set by the administration of former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NASA had been aiming for 2024 for the first moon landing by astronauts since the Apollo 17 mission made a lunar landing in 1972. The\u00a0aggressive goal, set by the Trump administration, was part of the agency\u2019s Artemis programme, which seeks to use the moon landing and creation of a long-term colony as a stepping stone for a far more ambitious Mars mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on Tuesday that the US Congress did not provide enough money to develop a landing system for the Artemis programme and that more money was also needed for the development of the Orion capsule, the spacecraft that would make the trip.