Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 223 66.0%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 41 12.1%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 74 21.9%
  • Total voters
    338
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SpaceCoastVol said:
Naaaah. That's weak. Here's a reason to colonize the moon.

ExplainingTheFuture.com : Helium-3 Power

Oil ain't gonna last forever. Chemical rockets need fuel, a LOT of which comes from oil. With the exception of LOX and hypergolic fuels, I believe everything else is oil based. He3 will solve a lot of earth's problems.
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space sex, and the Jim Kirk drive to find and violate new alien races.
 
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The Chinese are gonna beat us anyway. We need the moon. Screw Mars. No intrinsic value at this point in our history.
 
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Some things are done quietly.

Trump's New Space Policy Directive 2 Could Make Life Easier for SpaceX and Others

The Trump administration's push to ease regulations on private industry is no longer confined to Earth.

Yesterday (May 24), President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive-2 (SPD-2), which instructs the secretary of transportation to devise a new regulatory regime for launch and re-entry activities, and to consider requiring just a single license for all such commercial operations.

The document also orders the commerce secretary to review regulations on the commercial remote-sensing industry, and gives the secretary 30 days to come up with a plan to create a "one-stop shop" within the Commerce Department for private-spaceflight regulation.

"The president is committed to ensuring that the federal government gets out of the way and unleashes private enterprise to support the economic success of the United States," White House officials wrote in an SPD-2 fact sheet that was released yesterday.
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Grand Vol said:
Pick which one?

Why Is Elon Musk Attacking the Media? We Explain. (Also, Give Us a Good Rating!) - The New York Times

Scientists are roasting Elon Musk for his comments on nanotechnology | indy100

It’s nearly time for Tesla’s board to move on Elon Musk - MarketWatch
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1. none of it was bad. except for the panties getting in a wad over Pravda, nothing even caught my eye.
2. looks like he is out there correcting idiots making up stuff about him and his company. I don't see an issue with him correcting people on him hating yellow.
3. spaceX and others would be dumb to get rid of him.
 
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Americans Feel That the U.S. Should Remain a Global Leader in Space Exploration

According to a national survey, the majority of Americans think that it is essential for the U.S. to remain a global leader in space exploration.

The U.S. has been deeply involved in the pursuit of advancing space exploration since the early days of space travel in the mid-20th century. But, as the years have gone on, other countries and private organizations have grown considerably and become rival leaders in space exploration. The Pew Research Center conducted a national survey in the U.S. to assess how Americans felt about the country's future as a space leader.

The survey was conducted from March 27 to April 9 and used data from 2,541 U.S. adults. According to the survey, 72 percent of Americans think that the U.S. needs to remain a leader in space exploration. Additionally, 80 percent of Americans feel that the International Space Station has been a positive investment for the U.S., according to the survey.
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I found this part interesting as well:

Surprisingly, while the survey participants were largely in agreement that the U.S. should remain a leader in space, their responses were more mixed when they were asked about the importance of NASA versus private spaceflight companies. Approximately 65 percent of participants said that they believe NASA is essential to space exploration, while a significant 33 percent didn't think that NASA is necessary, and that private companies are capable of advancing space exploration all on their own.
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I thought 2019 was pretty ambitious even for Elon.

SpaceX Won't Launch Tourists Around the Moon This Year

SpaceX won't launch two space tourists on a mission around the moon in 2018 after all, according to media reports.

In February 2017, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk announced that the company aimed to fly two paying customers on a weeklong journey around the moon before the end of 2018, using its Dragon capsule and powerful Falcon Heavy rocket. (The customers, who have never been publicly identified, put down a deposit for the mission, SpaceX representatives said at the time.)

But that timetable has now slipped to at least the middle of 2019, and possibly later, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday (June 3). SpaceX has not announced a new target date, according to the Journal, but that doesn't mean the landmark mission is off.
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Typical...

NASA's SLS Megarocket Over Budget, Behind Schedule, Report Finds

It'll cost several billion dollars more than originally planned to get NASA's huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket off the ground, and that already-delayed first flight will probably end up being pushed back yet again, a new report by the agency's Office of Inspector General (OIG) finds.

NASA is counting on the two-stage SLS to launch astronauts toward deep-space destinations such as the moon and Mars. The giant rocket will also aid planetary exploration, helping robotic spacecraft reach distant targets in much less time than has hitherto been possible, agency officials have said.

Aerospace titan Boeing is responsible for the SLS' first, or core, stage. In 2012, NASA contracted with Boeing to build two SLS first stages, as well as one Exploration Upper Stage (EUS), an advanced second stage that will boost the rocket's payload-lofting capability.

The space agency originally aimed to launch the first SLS flight — an uncrewed test called Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1), which will send NASA's also-in-development Orion crew capsule around the moon — in December 2017. The first crewed SLS-Orion flight, EM-2, was targeted for mid-2021.

Those schedules have slipped, however: NASA now aims to launch EM-1 in mid-2020 and EM-2 in the middle of 2022. And there will be cost overruns as well. The "Boeing Stages" contract runs through 2021, but NASA forecasts that the company will spend all of the allocated money by early next year, without the final delivery of a core stage or the EUS.
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I'd dare say it's time for NASA to stop trying to be the big boy and figure out the private sector is pretty much outperforming them in rocket design.
 
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26/world/nasa-insight-mars-landing-today/index.html

Latest Mars probe appears to have landed there perfectly, which is a good sign on the future of Space Force.

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