NASA doubles down on deep space exploration, but uncertain future for International Space Station

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Nearly 50 years after Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first human landing on the moon, NASA said it’s renewing its focus so that similar missions can become a reality a once again.

“For exploration, NASA’s budget proposes $10.5 billion with a primary focus on three areas of our exploration campaign – lunar and deep space, low earth orbit commercialization, and exploration research and technology,” said Robert Lightfoot Jr., NASA’s acting administrator.

The 2019 budget proposal allocates $4.5 billion for deep space exploration initiatives – a $374 million increase from the agency’s 2017 fiscal year.

This would support robotic missions to the moon, develop the Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft, and build momentum to lead humans around the moon in 2023. This would be the first human mission to the moon since 1972. The agency said it would be a stepping stone to more ambitious goals.

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