This is dubious at best. Obama tasked NASA with the Climate Change Agenda and outsourced space exploration (AND beaucoup bucks) to his buddy, Elon Musk at SpaceX. Do we think NASA will return to space exploration or do we think NASA will just go defunct. Time will tell.
I can’t figure why they are not working hand in hand with the private space ventures. Cut the global warming cram and take a hunk out of the bloated bureaucracy and get back to the big stuff. Why can’t you ask private industry to build you a lunar lander for a fixed budget amount?
Do you want to go to the moon again? Do you want to establish a base there or do you want to go to Mars? One builds on the other it would seem. But NASA needs to embrace some of the private company ideals.