{"id":108520,"date":"2020-06-10T22:02:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T05:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/what-a-trump-loss-in-november-would-mean-for-nasas-lunar-return"},"modified":"2020-06-10T22:02:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T05:02:46","slug":"what-a-trump-loss-in-november-would-mean-for-nasas-lunar-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/what-a-trump-loss-in-november-would-mean-for-nasas-lunar-return","title":{"rendered":"What A Trump Loss In November Would Mean For NASA\u2019s Lunar Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-a-trump-loss-in-november-would-mean-for-nasas-lunar-return2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tells me that despite the pandemic, the agency will do its utmost to meet the 2024 Artemis lunar return deadline.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to assess the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on our missions, but we strongly believe that we can still meet the goal of landing the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024,\u201d NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told me via a headquarters\u2019 spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Yet NASA has also experienced shakeups in its human spaceflight directorate that could hinder meeting Artemis\u2019 goals. Case in point, Doug Laverro, Associate Administrator of NASA\u2019s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, departed less than a month ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tells me that despite the pandemic, the agency will do its utmost to meet the 2024 Artemis lunar return deadline. \u201cWe continue to assess the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on our missions, but we strongly believe that we can still meet the goal of landing the first woman and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}