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President's Budget Request is out today and NASA is once again facing a 23% cut. Adjusted for inflation, this would reduce space spending to pre-Mercury levels. Note that Congress rejected comparable cuts last year.
The promises of our space future may seem truly fantastical but this new space age comes with a darker side..
It is much more likely that, left unchecked and with no sustainability plan, resource extraction in space with the purpose of adding to Earth’s economy, will significantly increase the already immense gap between rich and poor, and rather add to global problems of social inequality and injustice.
It’s a civil service position — meaning that being hired is heavily dependent on getting through ridiculously strict algorithms first — but I just applied to work directly at NASA (instead of as a contractor) at the request of someone pretty high up in the agency. Fingers crossed!
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There are few issues that have this type of broad-based support in the United States. So why do we still seem to be stalled? Why haven't we started moving aggressively forward toward this goal? This panel provided an overview of how the United States and our international and industrial partners can work together in order to land humans on Planet Mars by 2033.
Before the conclusion of 2017, Explore Mars presented a panel on Capitol Hill at the Rayburn House Office Building in conjunction with the 5th Mars Achievability and Sustainability Workshop which was held in Washington, District of Columbia earlier that same week. Entitled 'Harnessing the Mandate for Mars' and sponsored by our partners at The Boeing Company, our panelists -- comprised of former Senior Senate Staffer Jeff Bingham, Janet Ivey-Duensing of Janet's Planet, former NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan, Joe Cassady of Aerojet Rocketdyne, and Explore Mars CEO Chris Carberry -- provided an overview of ongoing mission architecture concepts, while extrapolating upon the achievable goal that is a sustainable and affordable #JourneyToMars.
The panel also addressed the scientific justifications for sending #HumansToMars and the robotic precursor missions necessary to take place; the strong policy support that this objective commands; and the extraordinary power that #Mars exploration has to inspire and motivate students, the country, and the world.
"Extraterrestrial research has moved into the mainstream, and the money is pouring in — fast.
The new directive calls for the United States to “Lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and to bring back to Earth new knowledge and opportunities. Beginning with missions beyond low-Earth orbit, the United States will lead the return of humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilization, followed by human missions to #Mars and other destinations.”
These are all worthy and exciting goals, but will this new #policydirective signify any meaningful change from the past? Will we be able to land humans on the Moon and/or Mars any time soon?
The administration genuinely appears to be motivated to accomplish real human space exploration goals within its term of office. It remains unclear, however, whether a sufficient budget will actually be allotted to enable execution of its ambitious policy, either in whole or in part.
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