NASA’s Isaacman Says Agency Confident It Has Funds for Moon Base

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman says he’s confident that the agency will have the cash it needs to build its new moon base, an ambitious program that will need $20 billion over the next seven years and $30 billion over the next decade.

“We have the resources to do this,” Isaacman said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday. “We have a lot of resources at NASA. We just need to move them in the needle-moving direction.”

Isaacman said that some of the funds for the moon base would be shifted from the now-defunct Gateway, a ...