Lunar Exploration Meetings This Week

This is how Apollo sent humans to the Moon half a century ago. The new Gateway architecture is limited by the inability of @NASA_SLS to actually put @NASA_Orion or a lander into lunar orbit even though @NASA likes to brag about SLS size & power #LEAG2018 pic.twitter.com/3o7IxotFjM

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 14, 2018

More "notional" charts at #LEAG2018 - this time from @ESA - no one seems to know what their Gateway toys might actually look like. Powerpoint should sell space agencies a Powerpoint template with "notional" already on it by default. pic.twitter.com/KxlMzFVbqa

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 14, 2018

Jason Crusan has admitted that @NASA has spent several years debating how to do airlocks on a yet to be designed lunar lander and still has not decided #LEAG2018

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 14, 2018

Jason Crusan also admitted that Gateway's lunar architecture fuel decision has not been made - after years of study. Of course this affects ISRU on the Moon. #LEAG2018

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 14, 2018

Now Jason Crusan is talking about the notional @NASA Mars architecture that docks with the notional Gateway thing that also supports notional activities on the lunar surface according to a notional budget supporting a notional architecture wherein Moon?Mars overlap. #LEAG2018

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 14, 2018

The hallmark of @NASA Gateway presentations by Jason Crusan at HEOMD is to use the word "notional" a lot and mention lots of studies. In the same period of time that he's been playing with Gateway studies #NASA was cutting metal on Apollo half a century ago Just sayin' #LEAG2018

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 14, 2018