Lack of Anomalies in House Spending Bill a Blow to NASA’s Moon Plan
For once, a lack of anomalies is a problem for NASA.
The House of Representatives has passed a continuing resolution (CR) that will keep the government operating for seven weeks when the new fiscal year begins on Oct. 1. A CR keeps government spending at FY 2019 levels until Congress passes and the president signs a new budget.
NASA, which the Trump Administration tasked earlier this year with landing astronauts on the moon by 2024, has sought a number of exceptions or anomalies to allow for new program starts. But, the Democratic House did not include any for the space agency in the CR.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said earlier this year that a CR instead of a new budget would be “devastating” to the Artemis program meeting the 2024 deadline.
Ken Bowersox, the NASA official who is overseeing Artemis, told the House space subcommittee this week that NASA would need funding for lunar landing contracts by the end of 2019 or the landing would slip into 2025.
The Republican-controlled Senate, which has been supportive of the Trump Administration, has not passed a CR yet.
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NASA should maybe look for sourcing some cheaper options, Chinese made lunar gear apparently works well
Or they can buy from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and other US lunar lander companies. The Chinese couldn’t even get their heavy lift working, maybe they should consider launching on Falcon Heavy, I’m sure Elon would give them a great price.
They are going to buy from US companies. They ain’t cheap. Cheap would have NASA centers order stuff through Amazon and build it themselves. Maybe order direct for raw material. Al sheet is cheap. It is the cost of labor. Maybe put Brandenstine cutting sheet metal, instead of campaigning for Trump. There should be a lot of sheet metal workers available at HQ.
There obviously are no lunar lander companies in US. There’s plenty of people with cardboard mockups and CGI videos
Even if that was all the American lunar lander companies have – and it’s not – it would still be more than NASA’s got.
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Yeah, right, this looks like great CGI mockup.
The Chinese lander was also mockup and CGI a few years ago.
it has been dead for awhile…only Jimbo and Mickey and Donnie dont know it…even Sox has figured it out
Just one more trillion buck tax cut, and then going to the Moon will finally be affordable! Make America Grate Again!
If that tax cut was coupled with strong spending cuts and responsible spending going forward, then yes a tax cut would help things along. Just have the ones going also be the ones paying, does wonders for the cost side.
Sounds like a prescription for cutting 2 or 3 billion out of the NASA budget! Thank you for sharing.
I don’t have a prescription, just a general understanding that you cannot spend more than you make forever. With responsible procurement methods, NASA and military budgets could be cut in half while still maintaining more capability than currently exists. Unfortunately, reaching that level of responsible spending would be a massive effort by very capable, and well informed people acting with ironclad integrity.. I don’t see that happening.
Unless Congress passes the entire Budget there will be a second CR starting 15 November.
Maybe APPLEBEES & SUBWAY sandwiches corporations could invest (ha ha ha) large sums of money in the Artemis Project to establish franchises on the Moon. Hey! I saw those franchise signs at the moonbase shown in the movie, Ad Astra. Pretty realistic movie except for chemical rocket exhaust that wasn’t shown to blossom in the vacuum, and the reference to large quantities of antimatter onboard the near-derelict spacecraft orbiting Neptune. They should also have toned down the sounds of explosions and projectiles on the Moon and made the Lunar settlers and tourists in the moonbase more bouncy in 1/6th Gee. I did like the depiction of Mars and the gloomy lowlight conditions around Neptune.
I guess the house does not like NASA Moon plans. Or they have decided to balance the budget. Mostly they do not like Trump. A drop in the bucket. 1 trillion$ deficit next year forecast. What is needed is more tax cuts for the rich.which will cause the rich to invest more. Laugher Curve. It has never worked before. Maybe this time.
It worked during the Kennedy, Reagan and Trump administrations.