However, the more important implication attached to the Gateway experiment, explains Casey Dreier of the Planetary Society, is what it tells us about humans living in deep space. “Friends, there’s a whole lot about the moon that we don’t know yet.” “What Gateway represents is an opportunity, not just to go to the moon over and over again in sustainable architecture, but an opportunity to examine more parts of the moon than ever before,” Bridenstine says. These astronauts will be able to live on Gateway - 250,000 miles away from Earth - as well as shuttle back and forth to the moon to conduct experiments.Īn artist rendering of the Lunar Gateway. The first elements of Gateway are intended to be launched no later than 2022, with the goal of human habitation beginning in 2024.
One of those components is the Lunary Gateway - an orbiting outpost that will extend human presence in deep space. We call it Gateway.” The Lunar GatewayĪpproximately $10.7 billion of the intended $21 billion is ordered to be used towards building the key components necessary for sending astronauts to the moon. In order to achieve that objective, we need a permanent command and service module in orbit around the moon. “It’s about having a sustainable human presence on and around the moon. “Space policy Directive 1 is not just about delivering small payloads to the surface of the moon, it’s about much more than that,” Bridenstine announced. While it’s intended for the funding to go a variety of space science and aeronautics initiatives, the focus of the proposal links back to Space Policy Directive 1 - a 2017 directive from Trump, requesting that NASA makes its core mission sending Americans back to the moon and eventually to Mars. For 2020, Trump has proposed $21 billion in funding, a nearly six percent increase from the 2019 request. It ends with legislation passed by Congress and signed by the President. Speaking from the Kennedy Space Center on Monday, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine introduced the “Moon to Mars” budget proposal - the first step in an annual process that specifies the agency’s funding. President Donald Trump has submitted his proposed 2020 NASA budget and one message is very clear: The American space priority is a human presence on the moon and one that is established fast.
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