NASA is striking the astronaut moon until 2025 soon

NASA is still looking forward to next February the first test flight of its monthly rocket, the Space Launch System, or SLS, with Orion capsule.

NASA is delaying the return of astronauts to the moon until 2025 initially, missing the deadline set by Trump officials.

The space agency has set a target for 2024 astronauts by the end of the century.

Announcing the delay on Tuesday, NASA Chief Bill Nelson said Congress had not provided enough funding to improve its arrival plan with its Artemis monthly plan. In addition, the legal challenge of Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, has halted work on the Starship lunar lander under development by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

NASA is still looking forward to next February the first test flight of its monthly rocket, the Space Launch System, or SLS, with Orion capsule. No one will be riding. Instead, astronauts will board the second flight of Artemis, flying over a month but not arriving by 2024, a year later than planned. That will bring the moon to at least 2025, according to Nelson.

"The resettlement program is an important part of our mission to find the first woman and first person of the month, and we are preparing to leave," Nelson told reporters.

Officials said the technology for the new astronauts should also be upgraded before astronauts return to the moon.

NASA's last lunar spacecraft took place during the Apollo 17 era in 1972. Altogether, 12 men explore the moon.

During a 2019 National Space Council meeting, Deputy President Mike Pence requested that astronauts stay on the moon for less than five years "by any means necessary." NASA had been shooting to reach the moon in 2028, and pushing it for four years was considered the most desirable at the time, if not impossible.

Congress will need to increase funding, starting with the 2023 budget, for NASA to have private companies competing for 10 months or more in astrology, Nelson said.

The space agency is also requesting a larger budget for its caps in Orion, from USD 6.7 billion to USD 9.3 billion, citing delays between the coronavirus epidemic and hurricane damage. The cost of developing the rocket with the first Artemis aircraft next year stands at USD 11 billion.

Deputy President Kamala Harris will convene his first meeting of the National Space Council, as its chairman, on December 1. Nelson said he reviewed him with the latest program and costs during their visit to Maryland’s Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday.