White House Statement on Returning to the Moon by 2024
ACCELERATING AMERICA’S SPACE EXPLORATION: President Donald J. Trump is setting a bold goal to put Americans back on the Moon by 2024.
- President Trump has received five recommendations, unanimously approved by his National Space Council, to accelerate America’s space exploration program.
- President Trump also received four recommendations on streamlining export control regulations that followed a year-long review.
- The NASA Administrator will provide an update on the implementation of Space Policy Directive-1 (SPD-1) and the recommendations at the next Space Council meeting.
- The United States will seek to land on the Moon’s South Pole by 2024, establish a sustainable human presence on the Moon by 2028, and chart a future path for Mars exploration.
- NASA’s lunar presence will focus on science, resource management, and risk reduction for future missions to Mars.
- NASA will create a Moon-to-Mars Mission Directorate and make all necessary efforts to achieve Exploration Mission-1, a foundational uncrewed mission around the Moon.
- Exploration Mission-1 will take place no later than 2020 and a crewed mission around the Moon, Exploration Mission-2, will take place no later than 2022.
- NASA will unleash American industry, including through public-private partnerships, to enhance innovation and the sustainability of its space activities.
- To implement SPD-1, NASA will continue to improve its structure and management, and improve cost and schedule performance, seeking legislative authorization as necessary.
- The United States will engage with international partners to enable a sustainable lunar exploration and development program.
DARING AGAIN: President Trump is building a space program worthy of our great Nation and the American spirit.
- An American has not walked on the Moon in 47 years, but President Trump is working to change that.
- To achieve this goal, President Trump is taking action to ensure that American astronauts get to their destination quickly and sustainably.
REIGNITING AMERICA’S SPACE LEGACY: President Trump is keeping his promise to restore America’s proud legacy of leadership in space.
- These recommendations follow President Trump’s bold call for America to go back to the Moon and establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars.
- In December 2017, President Trump signed SPD-1, “Reinvigorating America’s Human Space Exploration Program.”
- The President’s Space Policy calls for NASA to lead an innovative space program with commercial and international partners.
- Americans will return to the Moon for long-term exploration, followed by missions to Mars and beyond.
- President Trump has signed three additional SPDs to restore American leadership in space.
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VECTORABLE NOZZLE GROUND LAUNCH
Innovation Systems and NASA are developing a five-segment RSRMV booster derivative that will generate a maximum thrust of approximately 3.6 million pounds. The five-segment RSRMV is also upgraded to incorporate newer technologies and materials such as non-asbestos insulation that provides cost and weight savings.
Originally baselined for Ares I/V under the Constellation
program, the RSRMV is currently slated to be utilized as the
baseline design for the initial flights under NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) architecture. Innovation Systems has conducted three successful development and one qualification static tests. A second qualification test is in preparation for mid-2016.
If not for the love of Boeing, this. Boeing says SLS is the only one. Wrong. SLS=8.8mlbs thrust. 3 5segment=10.8mlbs thrust. No blowing up. A leak could cut a support however. The thrust to weight is better further increasing performance. 4,848,369lbs. A 2nd, 3rd stage and Orion should fit . No launch scrubs because of tech issues. No turbo pumps blowing up. Cheap. A third SRB stage may be needed to leave LEO though.
Pence is getting brave to buck Boeing. I hope he will look at this other SLS that NASA could build.
What are you rambling about? It sounds like you want to put a third 5 seg booster on top of the core as an upper stage?
He wants to cluster three 5-segment SLS strap-ons together and get rid of SLS’s core stage. Orion would go on top, it seems, with a draft pick to be named later occupying the 2nd stage space in between.
Other than having to re-do the VAB yet again, build a completely new MLP for this configuration and probably further reinforce the crawler-transporters to handle the insane mass of the thing, what could possibly go wrong?
Oh god I’ve actually heard of this before nasa actually studied this very idea it’s a kludge nightmare like something out of kerbal space program… SRB-X! D:
Yeah, it would take years more to implement because of massive infrastructure revision issues on the ground. Then there’s that little problem that it would also kill any crews that tried to ride it. Bit of a showstopper, that.
I think it will be lighter than the current configuration. Remember SRB is 2-1. LRB 1.5-1? Thrust to weight ratio of SRB a lot better. N-G is working on MLP for OmegA. MIght work. OmegA with a lot of side SRB might work. A lot of work, but I might check. I would ask N-G, but they probably will not answer. Maybe Doug could ask. Bridenstine is at a budget hearing today. Maybe more information. I can not think of anything that could go wrong. Good point on the VAB. Maybe too tall?
The current configuration weighs about 3.45 million lb. dry and about 4.45 million lb. fully fueled. The crawler-transporter has to support the mass of the vehicle and MLP in transit. Once the vehicle and MLP are at the pad, the crawler-transporter withdraws before fueling begins so it never has to support the fully-fueled weight of the vehicle. Substituting a third SRB for the core stage would raise the transportable mass requirement for just the vehicle from 3.45 million lb. to 4.86 million lb. – much more than the current configuration would weigh even fully fueled. That assumes use of ICPS for a 2nd stage and an MLP with a mass equal to the current one. If you want to substitute some solid rocket motor for ICPS, the mass goes up again by most of the mass of said motor as ICPS weighs less than four tons dry.
I don’t think the crawler-transporters, even after having been upgraded once for Shuttle and again for SLS, are good for an extra 700 tons plus of transportable load without a third round of expensive and time-consuming reinforcement and upgrades.
As for the VAB, height is probably not a problem unless some solid-fueled 2nd stage enters the picture and that might not be a problem even so given that the SRB’s are not as tall as the core stage. But all the deck levels in the SLS high bay are custom-fitted to the current configuration and are placed at elevations needed for access to particular places on the current configuration. Make a major change to said configuration and all that ironmongery becomes useless and has to be replaced or at least relocated. If a solid second stage was tall enough to allow unaltered use of the Orion-level decks, it would weigh enough to make the needed reinforcements and upgrades to the crawler-transporters even more onerous.
The biggest problem with your idea, though, is that such a revised SLS couldn’t possibly launch people without pureeing them long before they reached orbit. SRB’s are, in essence, huge flaming organ pipes. The vibrations produced – especially the low-frequency, high-amplitude vibrations, are, literally, deadly if undamped. That was what doomed Ares 1. All-solid alternate SLS would be far worse as there would be three SRB’s, not one. The only reason SRB’s worked at all for Shuttle, or would do so again for SLS missions tasked with launching crews, is that, in both cases, the SRB’s had the huge masses of the ET and core stage, respectively, to soak up those otherwise deadly vibrations.
One of the long lead items for the upgraded SLS is a new crawler able to handle its mass safely.
Negative. You need to go back to English class. A SRB for all stages. Boeing can’t get the core done on time. They are still trying to get the engine section done. Replace the core with another 5 segment SRB. 2nd stage SRB to get to LEO ,whatever size works. 3rd stage SRB to leave LEO and head for Moon. What are you rambling about? You say I am rambling. I tried to keep it as short as possible. I assume you know a little about rockets. If I give every little detail then people would say I am rambling. I tried to keep it short for people like you. I use a laptop with a 14″ screen not a mini computer. I have plenty of room and is easy to type.
Replace SLS with SRBs. Is that short enough? Do you understand or do you have more questions?
I do not liked to be harassed or spied on. I was accused of rambling on an Indycar post last week.
I understand you are a very unpleasant person to converse with.
Waves crucifix to ward off the man possessed with the ghosts of SRB-X
Trump babble…unless the budget priorities change
No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
Actually, NASA CAN do this without increasing their budget.
Turn the SLS over to Boeing, et. al.
Do a COTS-SHLV for 2-3 SHLV. Say 3-5B.
ANd then let companies compete to go to the moon.
In the meantime that SHLV are getting ready, NASA vets 2-3 private habitats, and then puts ppl on private space station (using current rockets) as well as allows them to put others on those stations for training.
Finally, put current launch vehicles out to orbit the moon and do another COTS for landers (which is on-going now).