Plus, it considers only the extra $35B that NASA wants for Artemis, while ignoring the money hemorrhaging of SLS.
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Plus, it considers only the extra $35B that NASA wants for Artemis, while ignoring the money hemorrhaging of SLS.
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” With $35 billion, NASA could launch flagship missions to the planets Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Venus, as well as intriguing moons in the outer Solar System, such as Triton, Titan, Enceladus, Europa, and more.”
Who looks at NASA’s recent performance and thinks that if they just do one simple trick, changing what they are doing, that they will magically be able to do all of these things?
+10 +/- 35,000,000,000
NASA hasn’t been able to launch the unmanned James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 17 years (24 if you count the start as the “Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST)” program in 1996). The projected, no-kidding, this-time-for-sure launch date of 30 March 2021 is now in the dumper because integration and test operations have been suspended (by the coronavirus – or, rather, by NASA in response to the coronavirus).
The original NGST was to have been an 8 meter aperture telescope, launched in 2007 at a total cost of $500 million. JWST might be launched in 2021, though it’s not likely, for some amount of money above it’s currently projected $10 billion.
And they expect to send people to the moon four years from now for $35 billion? Honestly, I don’t know how they can look at themselves in the mirror…
Oh, and JWST is now a 6 meter aperture scope.