Posted on 12/09/2016 2:04:55 PM PST by kingu
The transition team for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump added six more people to the NASA landing team Friday, including senior Dynetics executive Steve Cook and former astronaut Sandy Magnus.
[...] Other members:
Greg Autry of the University of Southern California Jack Burns of the University of Colorado Rodney Liesveld, a former senior policy adviser at NASA Jeff Waksman, a former research fellow at the U.S. House of Representatives The NASA landing team is lead by Chris Shank, who worked for House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) until last week.
(Excerpt) Read more at spacenews.com ...
Any word on the transition team for the Muslim World outreach at NASA?
Considering that list, somehow I sincerely doubt any of them will be thinking of any country but the United States.
does anyone remember if obama was as busy as trump is for his transition? Was news out daily on his picks like trump?
Yeah, kill off NASA CAGW “research”, send Islamic Moon Rocks back, clean Earth orbits of debris, keep track of asteroids likely to hit Earth and develop tech to eliminate same, and go to Mars.
I believe our new Sec. of Defense, Gen. Mattis is now in charge of muslim “outreach.”
I’m guessing NASA’s top priority under Trump will not be Muslim outreach.
Is the media going to finally tell the public that bammy put a stop to space exploration and turned NASA to making nice with muzzies?
I doubt it. In fact, they will turn Trump’s interest in the space program into a negative.
“Cook has been closely involved in Aerojet Rocketdyne’s development of the AR-1 engine - a candidate to replace the Russian RD-180 on United Launch Alliance’s next-generation rocket.”
“Greg Autry, an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California. Autry has written extensively in support of commercial spaceflight ... (He) took a harder line on the SLS. ‘We will discontinue spending on Space Launch System (SLS), a giant government rocket, lacking both innovation and a mission,’ he wrote. ‘While SLS has consumed the largest single piece of NASA’s budget for years, private sector operators like SpaceX and Blue Origin have leapfrogged it with more efficient, reusable boosters.’”
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Jack Burns has been an advocate for lunar exploration, serving as director of the Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research (LUNAR), a network of universities and NASA centers that studied the use of the moon to support space science research.
Commenter (not me) on the site posted:
“Rodney Liesveld is a pal of Chris Shank’s from Mike Griffin’s time at NASA. Steve Cook was one of Griffin’s confidants. Sandy Magnus has long-standing ties with Griffin via their positions at AIAA. The presence of Shank, Cook, Liesveld, and Magnus is further proof that Mike Griffin is lurking in the distance plotting a return to NASA. This is more of a Griffin ‘Boarding Party’ than a ‘Landing Team’. Adding Jack Burns, an overt lunar exploration advocate, indicates that a pivot from #JourneyToMars toward #BackToTheMoon is in the cards.’”
NASA = Need Another Six Astronauts
This angered me about as much as anything during the past 8 years, but it’s a long list.
Probably a return to Moon is my guess
“does anyone remember if obama was as busy as trump is for his transition? Was news out daily on his picks like trump?”
You know what I especially like about the daily announcements of Trump Cabinet and other Office picks? It prolongs the agony of the Dems/Libs/Socialist/Muzzie/Pinko Commies with the steady drip, drip, drip of another Conservative being hired to kill their precious social justice/terrorist loving/economy destroying programs. Worse than Chinese water torture, worse than waterboarding. Just another form of torture, aimed directly at the Libs. Loving it.
You’ve got two choices; either make it so that there’s little cost in lifting materials from earth, or make it so you can harvest materials from outside the gravity well. Until you solve ONE of those two problems, you’re sending very very expensive gadgets into space. Great for TV images from Mars, not so much for actually exploring via humans.
Obama did nothing for weeks, then he asked Goldman Sacs for a list of names- and then implemented it nearly 100%
That’s cool and what I like about FR. My son begins an engineering internship at NASA Monday.
i do remember him with his prez elect logo at pressers...
I know Jack Burns from way back when. We went to school together. Glad he is on board!
And until they solve the loss of vision problem everything will remain on hold for all low or no gravity missions.
I disagree with mr autry’s position on SLS. We need a heavy lift capability
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