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Ken Bowersox, acting associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said Sept. 18 that NASA needed fiscal year 2020 funding for lunar lander development in place by the end of this year to prevent delays. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

WAILEA, Hawaii — A House version of a stopgap spending bill does not include any special provisions for NASA, which threatens to delay work on lunar landers needed for the agency to achieve its goal of returning astronauts to the moon by 2024.

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Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...