The United States space agency, NASA, has delayed sending astronauts back on the moon until 2025 at the earliest – jettisoning a deadline set by the administration of former President Donald Trump.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 aggressive goal, set by the Trump administration, was part of the agency’s 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.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.
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