AkaSci 🛰️19h ago

NASA is hosting a day-long set of panels and briefings at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. to describe its plans for "colonizing" the moon and to "achieve President Donald J. Trump’s National Space Policy and advance American leadership in space."

We wonder if the event is intended for an audience of one.

Nice graphics. Any bets on the likelihood of meeting these ambitious goals in 2028?

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-unveils-initiatives-to-achieve-americas-national-space-policy/

Video for the first event at 9:00 EDT is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIlTwwJv1Ac
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Show threadAkaSci 🛰️19h ago

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman:

"First we clear the barriers inside NASA.
Then we move."

What barriers are we planning to remove? NASA scientists?
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Show threadaxel.18h ago
@AkaSci Landers on a monthly cadence, starting 2027? That’s a lot of barriers to be moved, but also a lot of stuff to be built.
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@axeln @AkaSci

Am I the only one remembering the **huge** amount of hardware, including rovers, built and discarded during the last 25 years virtually every single time a president changed?

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@axeln @AkaSci

2008 to 2015. Wonder what happened in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Exploration_Vehicle

Space Exploration Vehicle - Wikipedia

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@axeln @AkaSci

Now we're back to a glorified golf-caddy in space, virtually no better than the Apollo rovers.

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