Author Topic: NASA Authorization Act pushes for Moon and Mars priority (Read 63104 times)

yg1968 · « **Reply #20 on:** 06/19/2013 02:21 pm »

Ms. Johnson. Not happy about the bill. Cuts NASA funding and adds unfunded goals. Also not happy about the cuts to Earth science and Technology. Doesn't like the 2017 deadline for commercial crew. It could lead to safety issues. Says this bill is DOA in the Senate.

newpylong · « **Reply #21 on:** 06/19/2013 02:25 pm »

and my feed just died.

yg1968 · « **Reply #22 on:** 06/19/2013 02:27 pm »

Me too.

Here is Palazzo' opening statement:
http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-%20SY16-WState-P000601-20130619.pdf

Squyres' statement:
http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-SY16-WState-SSquyres-20130619.pdf

Young's statement:
http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-SY16-WState-ATYoung-20130619.pdf

Rocket Science · « **Reply #23 on:** 06/19/2013 02:33 pm »

Up again, reload...

Prober · « **Reply #24 on:** 06/19/2013 02:42 pm »

Mr Young is talking about the need for a real roadmap. and is very happy to see this.

Prober · « **Reply #25 on:** 06/19/2013 02:45 pm »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 06/19/2013 12:35 pm

Thanks guys. Glad it came across well enough!

made for a happy start for my day.

Glad to see some leadership out of Washington.

Prober · « **Reply #26 on:** 06/19/2013 02:55 pm »

Mr. Brooks is not happy with the SLS funding it needs 1.8 bill.

Andy DC · « **Reply #27 on:** 06/19/2013 03:09 pm »

Rohrabacher really doesn't have a clue. Thinks Atlas and Delta are alternatives to SLS. Thinks Mars Inspiration is all we need for Mars.

Prober · « **Reply #28 on:** 06/19/2013 03:10 pm »

Seems to be some interest in cancelling SLS Block1, and going forward to Block2.

The video (if available) would be very interesting to watch.

yg1968 · « **Reply #29 on:** 06/19/2013 03:12 pm »

Quote from: Andy DC on 06/19/2013 03:09 pm

Rohrabacher really doesn't have a clue. Thinks Atlas and Delta are alternatives to SLS. Thinks Mars Inspiration is all we need for Mars.

He said in conjunction with propellant depots.

yg1968 · « **Reply #30 on:** 06/19/2013 03:18 pm »

Squyres is answering the question very honestly. It's refreshing. He mentioned that he doesn't think that we can afford both important SLS missions and the ISS at the same time. He thinks that you can do one or the other but not both at the same time. But he emphasized that he thinks that the ISS is really important.

JBF · « **Reply #31 on:** 06/19/2013 03:24 pm »

I'm sorry unless they can increase NASA's budget this is just a dog and pony show.

newpylong · « **Reply #32 on:** 06/19/2013 03:24 pm »

I am getting the understanding that through testimony that most people believe we cannot continue the exploration program beyond 2021 while still paying for ISS.

yg1968 · « **Reply #33 on:** 06/19/2013 03:33 pm »

Squyres mentioned that he thinks that the bill cuts Earth science too much. But he also thinks that the President was cutting planetary science too much in his FY 2014 budget. He thinks that there needs to be better distributed cuts instead of either of these options.

yg1968 · « **Reply #34 on:** 06/19/2013 03:34 pm »

Hearing is over.

cro-magnon gramps · « **Reply #35 on:** 06/19/2013 03:35 pm »

found it interesting, that both witnesses think that at present funding, Missions to Mars will never happen... makes talk of flexible plan, step by step, incremental advances in exploration, a mockery of NASAs ability to actually complete those steps...

Edit I found little of positive encouragement in this meeting;

aside from the forthright and open hard questions and statements about NASA's funding, the serious amount of Oversight Creep since the Apollo Era, and the increase in programs that NASA has been asked to do; it is little wonder that NASA is moving like an old man with a 300 lb weight on it's back trying to implement any program.

yg1968 · « **Reply #36 on:** 06/19/2013 03:42 pm »

Quote from: yg1968 on 06/19/2013 01:45 pm

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 06/19/2013 05:04 am
Here's the 80 page draft I was kindly sent, by the way:

Thanks for the copy of the bill. Nobody else has posted it yet.

The House has now posted the bill on their website:
House Draft Bill

newpylong · « **Reply #37 on:** 06/19/2013 03:58 pm »

Yes, I do not know if they will ever be solved but at least the right questions are being asked for the first time that I can remember. Cold hard facts.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #38 on:** 06/19/2013 04:49 pm »

Thanks for covering this guys!

Star One · « **Reply #39 on:** 06/19/2013 04:51 pm »

Quote from: yg1968 on 06/19/2013 03:18 pm

Squyres is answering the question very honestly. It's refreshing. He mentioned that he doesn't think that we can afford both important SLS missions and the ISS at the same time. He thinks that you can do one or the other but not both at the same time. But he emphasized that he thinks that the ISS is really important.

It would be ridiculous to abandon ISS at this stage when it has taken it so long & cost so much money to get there & if that means delaying SLS then it's going to have to be that way.

Also the cuts should be more evenly distributed and not just all seemingly taken out of the planetary budget.