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?
Video for the first event at 9:00 EDT is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIlTwwJv1Ac
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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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This graphic from the webcast has a significantly different timeline and states the dates as starting points for the various phases.
Presented by Carlos Garcia-Galan, program executive, Moon Base. He was Deputy Manager for the lunar Gateway Program, which has now been terminated; parts of the program will now be repurposed for lunar landing missions.
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Here is an unbelievable graphic from the webcast showing planned launches and assets deployed on the moon, starting in 2026 with 2 landers!
All for the low low price of $10B across 3-4 years.
A lot is planned for 2027 and 2028. We wonder why?
BTW - the first moon landing using Artemis IV is currently planned for early 2028.
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Names of past and current NASA Mars missions -
Pathfinder
Spirit
Opportunity
Discovery
Insight
Perseverance
Ingenuity
Names of future missions -
SR-1 Freedom
Skyfall
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman today -
"We will never give up an opportunity to go to Mars."
"America will never give up the Moon again."
"(we will) do whatever it takes to return to the Moon and never surrender it again."
trumpism infects NASA plus Space Jingoism 😠
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@jpshoer
The NASA Insight lander mission was named Discovery 12.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Mars
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Joseph Shoer