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Donald Trump is causing big problems for NASA

July 16, 2017 By Dan Taylor

Donald Trump is causing big problems for NASA

Despite President Trump's claims that he would usher in a new era of space exploration, NASA just revealed they haven't been given funding for it.

President Donald Trump promised that he would usher in a new era of greatness for NASA, and Vice President Mike Pence just a few days ago said the new budget would do just that. But a top official with the space agency just admitted that a key part of NASA’s vision, which is to send a manned mission to Mars in the coming decades, isn’t even funded.

William H. Gerstenmaier, head of human spaceflight at NASA, admitted recently that that’s why the agency can’t put a date on a future mission to the Red Planet: they have no idea when they’ll get any money for it, or if they will.

“I can’t put a date on humans on Mars, and the reason really is that at the budget levels we described, this roughly 2 percent increase, we don’t have the surface systems available for Mars,” NASA’s William H. Gerstenmaier said according to the Daily Mail. “The entry, descent and landing is a huge challenge for us for Mars. We think an unfuelled mars asset vehicle would weigh around 20 tons, that’s a 20 fold increase on a rover.”

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