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NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot said the agency's upcoming budget proposal will detail "what we've been asked to go do and how we think we're going to do it" regarding a human return to the moon. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust

WASHINGTON – Details about how NASA will implement a space policy directive regarding a human return to the moon will be in the agency’s 2019 budget request, scheduled for release as soon as early February.

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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...