impossible mission

Vice President Pence Gives NASA Five Years to Put Americans Back on the Moon—or Else. Oh, that's not hard to figure out. They're going to kill NASA. Either the Republicans will sell it off or fold it into the military. There is no plausible way that NASA can make it to the moon with its current funding.

It’s important to note that returning to the Moon will be expensive—one estimate suggested $104 billion in 2005, or almost $135 billion today. Estimates calculate that the Apollo missions cost $120 billion in today’s dollars. Congress appropriated NASA $21.5 billion, more than its $19.9 billion ask, in 2019. The president’s proposed NASA budget includes cuts to scientific programs like the WFIRST telescope and NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement, but does offer over $300 million in funding for developing a lunar lander.

 This is a sad joke.