News NASA's Future: The News and Updates Thread

[GLS]

Eric Berger on Twitter: "BIGGEST NEWS: The Budget defers funding of upgrades (known as “Block 1B”) for the SLS, and instead focuses the program on the completion of the initial version of the SLS."

Do my eyes deceive me??? :jawdrops:
Still, in the end it won't fix anything...

 

[Frilock]

[ame="http://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1105246682453868545"]Chris B - NSF on Twitter: "Feels like parts of the Agency want to lose SLS, but know the lawmakers won't allow it, so this is a way of diluting its future to force the hand. Ironically, those who think SLS dying would result in a blank check sent to Elon need to consider the aforementioned lawmakers."[/ame]

 

[mahdavi3d]

spacenews.com : Op-ed | The rocky landscape for astrophysics

 

[IronRain]

Pence calls for NASA to land astronauts on the moon within five years

Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday that NASA should land astronauts near the south pole of the moon within five years “by any means necessary,” calling for “new urgency” in the U.S. space program and sounding a warning for entrenched aerospace contractors to better meet schedule and cost commitments, or else lose work to other companies.

“It is the stated policy of this administration and the United States of America to return American astronauts to the moon within the next five years,” Pence said. “The first woman and the next man on the moon will both be American astronauts, launched by American rockets from American soil.”

NASA and the Trump administration previously aimed to land astronauts on the moon by 2028. Pence said the National Space Council, which he chairs, will send recommendations to President Trump for a “major course correction” at NASA.

“To accomplish this, we must redouble our efforts,” Pence said.

During his remarks Tuesday at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Pence singled out the troubled Space Launch System — a heavy-lift rocket in development to launch crews into deep space — as an example of a program “plagued by bureaucratic inertia.”

 

[mahdavi3d]

 

[mahdavi3d]

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1372577842098229254

This phrase aged well...
""The head of NASA ought to be a space professional, not a politician," Nelson said in a brief written statement to POLITICO. - Bill Nelson, 2017

Politicians: always in favor of everything and its opposite. ?‍

 

[Notebook]

Nasa selects landing site for Moon rover mission

The space agency will send a rover to look for water-ice near a crater at the Moon's South Pole.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Sbb1413]

Unique Boeing 747: NASA Will End The SOFIA Program Before October

Rest in peace the SOFIA variant of the iconic jumbo jet.

 

[GLS]

Nelson and Pambo, another astronaut in:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1864340835526909985

https://twitter.com/x/status/1864346915183157636

 

[Urwumpe]

Well, I realistically, I give him just three days before he goes mad in the administration. But from all the bad choices, Donny and Elmo pick in the past days, this actually isn't one. At least not for NASA standards.

Though I am still convinced, the best NASA adminstrators were the dry bureaucrats, not the astronauts.

 

[Arvil]

Bureaucrats know how to be bureaucrats and astronauts know how to be astronauts, ne’er the twain should meet.

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

Well, I realistically, I give him just three days before he goes mad in the administration.

Yeah. I think his ambition and industriousness will collide with the sluggish bureaucracy. IMHO the job actually is boring anyway.

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1891977193594536031

 

[GLS]

Now confirmed...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1892015238154711164

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1898012076376743945

 

[richfororbit]

I can only think the money is for Mars. Whether the proposal was wise or not.

I watched an old clinton library whitehouse video on climate change. It was all pretentious, nobody could ever be serious on such a subject, but yeah, not much has changed in twenty eight years.

Either way, less funding for NASA missions can be damaging, I think a lot may be climate related, ocean measuring, and all of that.

 

[GLS]

I think a lot may be climate related, ocean measuring, and all of that.

It's easy to forget, but the Earth is a planet in the Solar System, thus it also requires research.

 

[Urwumpe]

It's easy to forget, but the Earth is a planet in the Solar System, thus it also requires research.

Also, we might take this for granted, but its the only inhabitable planet and sadly, also the only planet where large-scale terraforming is tried.

 

[N_Molson]

The country that once had a space program...