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[ame="https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1105130275586142208"]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."[/ame]
 

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[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]
 

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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.”
 

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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. ?‍♂️
 
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