The sad part is that it is nearly a flat line budget in the out years, meaning no adjustment for inflation, and reduced 'actual' working capital. How NASA is expected to make these dreams a reality is beyond me.
Quote from: robertross on 02/13/2018 11:17 pmThe sad part is that it is nearly a flat line budget in the out years, meaning no adjustment for inflation, and reduced 'actual' working capital. How NASA is expected to make these dreams a reality is beyond me.If NASA got out of the launch-vehcle business, which it doesn't seem to be very good at, and instead bought launch services, it could do more with less.
Quote from: Proponent on 02/14/2018 04:29 pmQuote from: robertross on 02/13/2018 11:17 pmThe sad part is that it is nearly a flat line budget in the out years, meaning no adjustment for inflation, and reduced 'actual' working capital. How NASA is expected to make these dreams a reality is beyond me.If NASA got out of the launch-vehcle business, which it doesn't seem to be very good at, and instead bought launch services, it could do more with less.The way government works, they would just reduce the amount they give NASA...
NASA’s topline budget will be flat for the foreseeable future — which means an effective decrease in real dollar funding for the agency. As a result, President Trump may see his Moon plans come crashing down to Earth.
My bets are on it happening largely without them -
Quote from: AncientU on 02/13/2018 01:08 pm My bets are on it happening largely without them -you would lose
Now where is "Radar" O'Reilly when you need him???
Seems to me I have heard this song before... or a similar tune, in 2009-10... I panicked then, but I won't panic now... The ebb and flow of support for Science / Exploration will swing with the pendulum of time, and we will see a return to science... Keep Calm and Carry On This is just a bit of Scotch Mist... as for WFIRST, wasn't it a mothballed program to begin with... so worst comes to worst, it will be put back into storage, waiting for better days.. Science, well, there will be some science that will have to be done regardless, so perhaps the private sector can step up to the plate.... just as Cities did after America abandoned the Paris Climate AccordAmerican / World's capacity for ingenuity is quite large.. Now where is "Radar" O'Reilly when you need him???
According to the White House proposed FY 2019 #NASA budget Mars Opportunity Rover funding ends in 588 days. nasa.gov/sites/default/… @MarsRovers @NASA
QuoteAccording to the White House proposed FY 2019 #NASA budget Mars Opportunity Rover funding ends in 588 days. nasa.gov/sites/default/… @MarsRovers @NASAhttps://twitter.com/nasawatch/status/965693354058055680
On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin bounded across the lunar surface as Michael Collins orbited above. We now sail across our solar system. Rovers gambol on Mars, the Cassini spacecraft just plunged through a gap in the rings of Saturn, and the Voyager spacecraft soars into interstellar space, more than 13 billion miles away, still sending back signals to Earth.But proposed budgets drastically cut support for telescopes that tell us about the universe’s origins and spacecraft that trace the changes on our home planet. And the United States has stood on the sidelines as nations across the world develop the next generation of land-based optical observatories.
A particular area of concern for Bera was the plan in the budget proposal to cancel the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST, the next flagship astrophysics missions at NASA after the James Webb Space Telescope. WFIRST, he noted, was the top priority large mission in the 2010 astrophysics decadal survey, where astronomers prioritized mission concepts for the next decade.“The decadal survey has served us well, and not looking at this scientific-based prioritization and moving away from that can certainty set a dangerous precedent,” Bera said.Lightfoot tried to downplay the effects of the proposed cancellation on astrophysics research. Asked later in the hearing by Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) about the consequences of not flying WFIRST, Lightfoot suggested other missions, including the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) scheduled to launch in April, could fill in.“We’re counting on TESS and James Webb to fill the astrophysics needs for quite a bit of time,” he said, but acknowledged there would be a “gap” in data. “To the astrophysics community, that’s a challenge from a scientific perspective.”
Babin also reminded Lightfoot that NASA had yet to deliver both the ISS transition plan and an exploration roadmap required by last year’s NASA authorization bill. Those documents were supposed to be delivered to Congress last December. Lightfoot later said that the exploration roadmap should be delivered by the end of the month.