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    Vice President Pence vows US astronauts will return to the moon

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    Swapna Krishna
    Swapna Krishna
    10.05.2017

    NASA has been talking a big game about Mars for a while now, but there's been a lingering question of how it will get there. After all, the agency just doesn't have the budget to put astronauts on the red planet. Back in June, the Associate Administrator of Human Exploration and Operations for NASA, Bill Gerstenmaier, confirmed as much. Now, Vice President Mike Pence, who leads President Trump's Space Council, has confirmed a shift in destination. The immediate goal for US space exploration is to return astronauts to the moon.