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| [00:00.00] | A panel of experts appointed by the White House |
| [00:03.69] | has warned that current plans to send astronauts back to the moon |
| [00:06.86] | in preparation for manned missions to Mars |
| [00:09.41] | are just not viable. |
| [00:10.90] | One of the panel members Li Ruoqiao |
| [00:13.33] | says the space agency NASA |
| [00:15.57] | hasn't been given enough funds to realize the plans. |
| [00:17.81] | "That is when the visions for space aspirations |
| [00:21.72] | were first announced in 2004 |
| [00:23.47] | there was expectation of a certain budget level |
| [00:25.52] | of the next several years. |
| [00:27.14] | In fact over the last five years |
| [00:29.00] | those numbers are nothing realized. |
| [00:30.68] | So because of that we are in a pickle that we are in now." |
| [00:33.48] | The experts say the current budget of the space agency NASA |
| [00:37.27] | would need to be increased by billions of dollars. |
| [00:39.45] | Without the extra money, |
| [00:41.13] | the experts say, NASA would have to work |
| [00:42.94] | with private companies now |
| [00:44.62] | trying to embark on commercial space flights. |
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