Nice summary here.
/-- NASA not likely to get the boost in budget of $3B that the Augustine panel recommends
/-- Looking for ways to save money and a Deep Space Option sort of approach with no early landings on the Moon or Mars. Instead, asteroid visits and flybys.
/-- ISS will be extended to 2020
/-- A commercial crew competition program would get a $1B instead of $2.5B as the panel recommends.
/-- Deep space exploration projects would get $1B starting in 2012-2013 time frame.
/-- Will also try to save money by using fixed-price contracts rather than cost-plus.
/-- Looking at the possibility of a private contractor operating the ISS
/-- R&D will get ~$800M rather that the $1.5B recommended by the panel.
/-- Ares 1 will probably be axed. Orion could survive as a backup to a commercial capsule.
/-- An amended NASA budget will be submitted to Congress in mid-Sept.
Looks like the multi-billion boondoggle of 'The Stick' with its pogo et. al. design problems is dead Jim. Good. I'd advocated this for almost 2 years.
Like the asteroid visits and flybys approach. Sadly, many of us here will not live long enough to see humans return to the moon.
A View of the Obama Admin's Revamp of Manned Spaceflight Future
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- A View of the Obama Admin's Revamp of Manned Spaceflight Future
- I think the most important questions haven't been addressed.
- Is it feasible to mothball the ISS instead of deorbiting it?
- You'll live long enough to see the Chinese on the Moon
- sexing up unmanned vs doing manned
- re: sexing up unmanned vs doing manned
- re: unmanned vs manned
- Why manned flights matter
- re: sexing up unmanned vs doing manned
- Disapointing but not shocking...