Category Archives: Economics

The Lunar Lander Awards

Eric Berger has the story:

NASA is taking a two-pronged approach toward the Artemis program. The agency has a clear mandate from the White House to land humans on the Moon by 2024. This has been criticized by some as a “political” date, but supporters of the fast timeline say it has injected needed urgency into the program. At the same time, NASA also wants to avoid the pitfalls of the Apollo Program—which flew six missions to the Moon and then ended due to high costs—by designing Artemis to be sustainable for the long term.

Unfortunately, as long as NASA is forced to continue to use SLS, that’s an impossible goal. Speaking of which, they just awarded a contract to AJR for $100M/engine.

Plus, Eric has a story on the uncertainty of launch architectures.

[Monday-morning update]

OK, so it’s not a hundred million per engine. It’s $146M.

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De Blasio

The blood on his hands. It’s stiff competition, but he’s probably the worst mayor in America, running its largest city. But then Garcetti is no prize, either.

[Afternoon update]

He threatens to round up Jews who don’t obey his orders.

[Thursday-morning update]

Blame Bill de Blasio.

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