NASA's billion-dollar space race goes into overdrive
Key takeaways
- NASA's renewed push to get a human mission to the moon and Mars is neither cheap, nor for the faint of heart.
- NASA's space programs definitely fall into this category.
- The agency has an enormous annual budget, and its portfolio includes powerful spacecraft, telescopes and weather and asteroid forecasting.
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NASA's renewed push to get a human mission to the moon and Mars is neither cheap, nor for the faint of heart. But who ends up covering the costs and what does everyone still on Earth get out of all this?
https://p.dw.com/p/5Bt Y5Despite all the time and money invested in the Orion space capsule, it was beset by some communication problems and a malfunctioning toilet Image: Atlas Photo Archive/NASA/Avalon.red/IMAGOAdvertisement Some things are hard to calculate in dollars and cents. NASA's space programs definitely fall into this category.
The agency has an enormous annual budget, and its portfolio includes powerful spacecraft, telescopes and weather and asteroid forecasting.