"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Cooper is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Moore is flanked out wide to the right. Chubb and Ford are split in the backfield as Watson takes the snap ... Here we go."
This is actually really exciting. There's been a lot of talk of moon-landings just in the next couple of years. I can't wait to see what happens. I'd love to see some HD live feeds from the moon. Maybe revisit the Apollo 11 site.
Trump Proposes Extra $1.6 Billion for NASA's 2024 Return to Moon
NASA's push to put humans on the moon in 2024 may get a financial boost next year.
A new budget amendment gives NASA an additional $1.6 billion in fiscal year 2020, on top of the $21 billion already allocated to the space agency, President Donald Trump announced today (May 13).
"Under my Administration, we are restoring @NASA to greatness and we are going back to the moon, then Mars. I am updating my budget to include an additional $1.6 billion so that we can return to space in a BIG WAY!" Trump said via Twitter this afternoon.
The amendment is a proposal for now, however; NASA won't get the money until Congress, which has the power of the purse, officially signs off.
The extra $1.6 billion is designed to help NASA put astronauts down near the lunar south pole in 2024, an ambitious goal that Vice President Mike Pence laid out in March. (Prior to Pence's announcement, the agency had been working toward a late-2020s crewed lunar landing.) This pioneering mission will help lead to a long-term, sustainable human presence on the moon, NASA officials have said.
The additional funds would make a big difference, but more cash infusions are still necessary in the future, agency chief Jim Bridenstine said.
"This additional investment, I want to be clear, is a down payment on NASA's effort to land humans on the moon by 2024," Bridenstine said during a call with reporters this afternoon. "In the coming years, we will need additional funds, but this is a good amount that gets us out of the gate in a very strong fashion and sets us up for success in the future."
Future cash boosts will need to be higher than $1.6 billion, he added, comparing the funding requirements to a bell curve: Needs will start out low, get higher and higher, and then come back down again.
The $1.6 billion is not coming from anywhere inside NASA, Bridenstine said, stressing that no other agency programs would have to suffer to make the funding boost possible.
NASA still isn't ready to disclose a total cost estimate for the moon-landing effort, which Bridenstine today said is called Artemis. (In Greek mythology, Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo and the goddess of the moon.) But he shot down rumors that the agency is seeking $8 billion per year for the next five years.
"It's nowhere near that much," Bridenstine said.
NASA's plan revolves in part around a small moon-orbiting space station called Gateway, which will serve as a hub for crewed and uncrewed sorties to the lunar surface. Some of these trips will be made by privately built spacecraft; a number of companies, including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, are developing landers that could aid NASA's efforts.
And those efforts will not end at the moon. NASA views Earth's nearest neighbor as a stepping-stone and a proving ground where the agency can learn what it needs to do to get people to the ultimate destination — Mars.
If you cannot hear the woman talking through the vacuum of space, are you still wrong?
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
For a mission in five years, they gotta form the cadre like yesterday. (key group, the main dudette and a couple alternatives). They’ve got a lot of training to get through and not much time.
And what a about things like a...Lunar Lander? Orbiter? Command module? Booster rockets?
They gotta get that all put together.
What an ambitious program. I hope they can pull it off.
I'm really psyched about this news.
If this still looks good in a year, I don't know, it will be a huge feather in Trump's cap. (I'm not trying to politicize this post, it's just the truth.)
For a mission in five years, they gotta form the cadre like yesterday. (key group, the main dudette and a couple alternatives). They’ve got a lot of training to get through and not much time.
And what a about things like a...Lunar Lander? Orbiter? Command module? Booster rockets?
They gotta get that all put together.
What an ambitious program. I hope they can pull it off.
I'm really psyched about this news.
If this still looks good in a year, I don't know, it will be a huge feather in Trump's cap. (I'm not trying to politicize this post, it's just the truth.)
In five years Elon will simply teleport them to the moon.
Wow, what a picture, striking, they have the same complexion and hairstyle of the teacher that died in the challenger explosion, if memory serves me right.
Nasa planning to send ... woman to moon.
Is it sending the wrong message, in 2019, I mean it's 2019 and we should have come a long way in the sexism progression, so much so that I say it sends the wrong message to specify whether a woman or man goes to the moon just to acknowledge that they achieve or accomplish this while living as a gender.
2. I think, being it's 2019, I mean it's not the 1980's anymore, in regards to robot technoledgy, there's no longer any need to send a human being "anywhere" in space, until the time they are going to stay there.
I think it's pretty wasteful, and wrong to think that the stuff sent to space, has to not only be human sized, but require "all the stupid life supporting stuff" that it takes to send a human being anywhere, up there.
I mean, couldn't the Japanese, just miniaturize the entire spaceship to the size of a number 2 pencil and place all the robotics and cameras and mining equipment into something that size, and shoot that tiny ship in to space.
Think of the savings. I think, because you are dealing with other planets, it doesn't matter what size of a thing you send up there, except for that the larger stuff, just takes to many resources.
You wouldn't send an Elephant into space, in 2019, I say, it's no longer necessary to send a whole human into space either, let robots do it, they're cheaper, safer, and can take better pictures, apparently, from "spirit" and "opportunity" and Hubble.
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