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How Trump Can Save NASA
An analysis by Jim Meigs, in which he quotes Yours Truly.
I strongly disagree that SLS/Orion is the fastest way to get back to the Moon. I’ll be discussing that in a study I’ve done for the Reason Foundation that I hope will be published in a week or three. Briefly, we have all the pieces we need to do it quickly, without SLS/Orion, as long as we’re willing to go back to the Apollo levels of risk acceptance. And we’ll have to do that to beat the Chinese.
About Those Scammers
It turns out that a lot of the “women” who have been hitting me up on LinkedIn (as I suspected) were men, and slaves.
Starship Changes
AvWeek has the deets.
The Kathleen Kennedy Era
…is over.
Capitulation
When Scott Pace says it’s time to throw in the towel, the end of SLS isn’t far off. I had lunch with a friend in Santa Monica yesterday who had just gotten off the phone with him, in anticipation of his testimony.
By “off ramp,” I assume he’s saying fly Artemis 2 and 3, but end the program after that. That would mean an immediate cancellation of the Exploration Upper Stage, and the ML-2 mobile platform, whose costs were beyond ridiculous, because they were only needed for Artemis 4. As I’ll note in my upcoming study for the Reason Foundation, that in itself would save almost a billion dollars per year. But cancellation of SLS itself will save a couple billion.
New From Casey Handmer
Why Starship matters and changes everything (I and Gwynne have been preaching this for years), and what should the first payloads to Mars be?
I haven’t read either (still busy on my Reason project), but they look interesting.
Ships
Why America can’t build them. Apparently it’s not a new problem. But at least Elon is building a spaceshipyard.
The Republican Party Is Dead
Long live the Republican Party.
A bunch of pranksters have skinned the republican party and are wearing it as a hat.
— Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) January 27, 2025
And I am in serious danger of running out of popcorn.
They understand something that actual republican politicians never did.
Ridicule is the best weapon against the ridiculous.
Jokes move… https://t.co/z2wBwgpJAm