At a cost of $21bn, it is $5 billion cheaper to go to the Moon and Mars than to build Trumps wall which stands at £26bn only with less racist overtones.
Usually dismissed as a massive idiot, Donald Trump earns a brief reprieve today with his announcement that NASA will receive $21bn to 'continue building the key components of the exploration campaign that will send astronauts to the moon and beyond'.
NASA plan to build a 'Lunar Gateway' outpost which will be orbiting the moon by the mid 2020s, and lunar landers to deliver cargo there by the late 2020s as well as a manned mission to the moon by 2028 and a view on flying to Mars.
'NASA is on the cusp of accomplishing more than we've ever been able to accomplish before' said one NASA boffin although it come at the cost of a reduction in Earth science missions finds which research climate change.
As Trump and his administration are climate change sceptics (Chinese creation in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive and all that), it is ironic that he is using his nations tax dollars to provide an escape from the polluted mess of a planet he is helping to create.
Also ironic that he is spending $21billion to send humans to another World while spending $26 billion keeping people out of his own little part of this World.
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