We can kiss that goodbye. It’s more important to to see that our future new citizens are clothed, housed, and well fed before they mail in their votes in the future….
Sounds like there’s going to be a lot of diversity training going on.
Zero money for NASA until they get back to their roots: space and putting AMERICANS on the moon again,
The most important part of NASA will be fully funded.
That is the PR department which has the critical mission of coming up with a million excuses why NASA still can’t get folks back to the moon.
I call it “the dog ate my homework” agency.
I think the main holdup to a 2024 manned lunar landing is spacesuits, according to the GAO.
SpaceX already has a $2.9 billion contract for a lunar Human Landing System based on the Starship design.
Blue Origin (Bezos) has tried to get that scotched to get his failed lander back in the running, even offering to fund $2 billion himself. He’s tried to get the GAO to stop SpaceX, and now is suing NASA.
Meanwhile, Musk continues to work on his Starship and Heavy Booster.
Bezos has yet to put anything into orbit, and his BE-4 engine meant for the new ULA Vulcan Centaur rocket is years behind schedule. They’re going to ship 2 engines to ULA even before flight certification. Dumb.
No lunar landing, no return to the moon. The socialists want NASA to research the flying f**k for orbit, VP Heels Up Harris is rumored to be going along for the ultimate orbital inter crew docking procedure while planning the fiorst orbital abortion on the Internatiopnal Space Station.
As far as America excelling in space?
Well we are apologizing for our colonial conquest of the Moon, even though there are no black, brown or yellow humans there yet to be victims of White Supremacy.
This means no second contract for the lunar lander. SpaceX and Musk is it (under contract and offering discounts). Bezos isn’t spreading enough around, it seems.
SpaceX will go to the Moon with, or without NASA. It is part of getting to Mars. It is also part of making damn sure Blue Origin gets shut out of space.
Superheavy4/Starship20 will launch in 2021. Subsequent test launches will come in rapid succession after that.
Dem administrations after Johnson have always killed programs that had clearly defined goals and timelines. Why limit the pork? NASA stopped being an innovator in spaceflight and became a funding bonanza for academia.
The cost of one spacecraft could keep thousands of professors doing studies of earthworms in normal and low gravity. Also does time in low g affect the number of chirps in mating crickets? You can include a dozen interns, 2 data analysts plus a data collection management staff in your proposal to insure scientific integrity of the results. The preliminary study alone would take years to determine the optimum number of crickets for the sample groups in the main study. And in manned spaceflight the sounds of crickets chirping will resound throughout the hallways.