Posted on 04/27/2019 4:55:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
NASA has updated a planned call for proposals for lunar landers to enable a human mission in 2024, broadening the scope to include integrated lander concepts.
In a procurement filing issued late April 26, NASA updated an earlier notice published April 8 that announced plans to solicit proposals for an ascent stage for a human-rated lunar lander. Instead, the upcoming procurement will seek proposals for “a complete integrated lander” that includes an ascent module as well as a descent module and transfer stage.
A formal call for proposals, part of NASA’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships, or NextSTEP, program and formally known as Appendix H, has yet to be released by the agency. NASA said on the NextSTEP website that it anticipates issuing that it anticipates issuing that solicitation by the end of May, and will include both studies as well as options for vehicle development.
NASA changed course after Pence’s speech, announcing plans for the ascent stage work in the April 8 presolicitation notice. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, in an April 9 speech at the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, said that notice was developed within a week. He added that he expected the lunar lander systems to be built as public private partnerships.
The updated plans provide a second chance for those who did not participate in the earlier lander studies solicitation or who do not get awards. “Appendix H offerors who are not awardees on Appendix E will be afforded the opportunity to propose similar work, to the extent it is necessary for their Appendix H proposals,” NASA stated in the revised procurement filing.
(Excerpt) Read more at spacenews.com ...
We have been there and done that. We are broke. Stop. The last time we paid for this , instead of claiming the Moon for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA we babbled about “mankind”. Mankind didn’t pay for it or pull it off. Until we drop all this globalist crap on the space program I shall resist.
They had some pretty silly stuff on that strip, like a portable telephone you could use as a TV. Like that'll ever happen.
Or a watch you could communicate with..
All this yakkety-yak about how to get there, but why do we want to go back? What are we going to accomplish? What, exactly, is the mission?
Designer considering alterations to existing design:
“Yeah, we can fit two adults in that compartment.”
That was dumb. We get a ton of benefits from this type of research.
And it is better than paying people to sit on their asses collecting welfare. It means JOBS.
THAT was a great game. Wasted a lot of quarters on that one!
*ping*
How about a lunar module 2.0 to match the proposed apollo 2.0 command module .... /s
Take over the EBE Base on the Darkside.
Make the systems redundant. Separate cargo from people. Use remote control and autonomous tools as much as possible. Do everything from a base — land at the base, then fly to interesting locations from there. Have a plan to make money.
back in the day the laundromat HATED us(or they would if they knew who we were) because the bar would shut us off from quarters so we'd go down the block and clean out the laundromat change machine before the weekend was over
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Speaking of silly stuff that will never happen - that coup looks a bit like the flying tabs the Navy filmed during the Nimitz incident ...
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