That’s NASA’s estimate of how much additional funding it would take to get back to the moon by 2024 (doing it The NASA Way, of course). Eric Berger has the story.
[Thursday-afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman writes that Trump’s moon effort exposes the power-hungry DC bureaucracy.
[Bumped]
A nice essay at the New Yorker (though it quotes an “historian” as saying that Nixon “killed Apollo.” Johnson did, and Kennedy probably would have, if he hadn’t been assassinated first).
Interesting design concepts from Hassell Studios.
Bezos is hinting that at next month’s satellite conference, he may announce an expedition to the lunar south pole.
There is a bipartisan bill from two Colorado congressmen to establish one.
I heard about this from George Sowers when I stopped by to visit him in Golden a couple weeks ago. Presumably, their goal is to put it in the Front Range, and probably affiliate it with the School of Mines, which currently has the only graduate program in this discipline.
As if the issue wasn’t already confused enough, now the Pentagon and Congress are talking about a “space national guard” (which is not a U.S. Space Guard).
I’m going to be on Hotel Mars this evening at 1830 EDT (1530 PDT).
[Thursday-morning update]
Sorry, I forgot that he records the shows. That’s just when I did it. I’ll let people know when it will air (if they care, or even if they don’t).
Kyle Smith thinks that it’s the best of the series. The last one was almost overwhelming for me, but maybe we’ll check this one out.
Marcia Smith has a report on Scott Pace’s speech yesterday at the USRA meeting.
…had an anomaly during a static test at the Cape. Not clear whether this will delay the abort test, but if it does, it will likely delay the first crewed flight as well.
[Late-evening update]
Here’s the latest from Stephen Clark. Sounds like a total capsule lost. I wonder how fast they can build another one?
[Monday-morning update]
Eric Berger has the latest on what we know, and what we don’t.