So it resulted in this space race at the time that was i think. It was motivated by that basically competition return american astronauts to the moon establish a Permanent Base there and develop the technologies to take american astronauts to mars and beyond. Nasas new plan return to the moon by 2024 hoping that naming its mission after apollo is twin sister artemis will be the key to success apollo had an infinite budget and skeptics wonder if artemis is limited by both time and money and when nasa was really pushing during apollo era they were getting Something Like 4 percent of the National Budget now its about point 4 percent of the National Budget and it really depends on what the political will is to fund the agency buzz aldrin the 2nd man on the moon says the u. S. Cant. Do this alone this is not just the action just us we have an ally which of nations that need to venture out a view echoed by space law experts we need to express basis of human species not as americans and chine