NASA says returning to the moon will cost $35b
A recent press release by NASA responded to US Vice President Mike Pence's stipulation that NASA should send astronauts to the moon once again by 2024, stating that the mission, called the Artemis Program, will cost an estimated 35 billion USD in addition to NASA's current budget, to design a Human Landing System to deploy astronauts safely onto the lunar surface.
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