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NASA's recap of a whirlwind day
NASA finally saying the quiet part about space stations in LEO out loud: "After more than 25 years of crewed operations, we have seen some amazing discoveries on station, but we haven't yet seen breakthrough products, capabilities or services" at significant demand
Current NASA leadership is trying to change that with a major revamp of the program while on the cusp of this launch. And there are certainly more changes to come.
“There is now a clear and consistent vision that the agency will execute upon to ensure American space superiority:" NASA spox
NASA trying to give us all a taste of the endurance it takes to do a long-duration space mission with today's all-day Ignition event.
As we gear up for the Artemis II mission to launch next week, a question I get asked a lot from those outside the space industry is... why? Why go back to the moon? Well, the answer depends on who you ask www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
In two days, NASA aims to launch its Artemis II mission -- a major milestone in its campaign to send humans back to the moon. But the Artemis program has struggled from cost overruns, delays, and a lack of vision that has turned the initiative into a patchwork quilt www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
"Tourism hasn't really materialized as a market. We certainly have had a number of tourist sponsored missions, but those have been limited, and we haven't seen recurring demand for them."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYH6...
NASA's new "Ignition" website (www.nasa.gov/ignition/) now has the Powerpoints from Tuesday. Keep scrolling down past "media resources" to each topic. Fact sheets and links to the RFIs/RFPs are there too.
Weigel and Amit Kshatriya gave a frank reality check that current approach not likely to work, offered new approach keeping ISS as a base from which cmrcl stations will detach, but either way, NASA doesn't have enough money. (Tmrw's HSS&T hrg should be interesting.)
