Afghanistan, Sept. 22 -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Monday revealed its latest plan to return astronauts to the Moon in 2024 with an estimated cost of meeting that deadline at $28 billion, according to sources, of which $16 billion would be spent on the lunar landing module.
The $28 billion would cover the budgetary years of 2021-25.
The United States Congress, with more than a month ahead of the 2020 Presidential Election, will have to sign off on the financing for a project that has been set by President Donald Trump as a top priority.
In a phone briefing with journalists Monday on the Artemis mission to return human beings to the Moon, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine noted that "political risks" were of...