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Senators Urge Biden To Fully Fund Artemis Human Landing System

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
February 3, 2021
Senators Urge Biden To Fully Fund Artemis Human Landing System

Letter From U.S. Senators To President Biden Regarding NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) Program
“NASA’s Artemis Program will return America to deep space, support economic recovery, strengthen national security, promote scientific research, and inspire the next generation. The HLS Program will develop 21st century crewed lunar landers – a critical piece of the Artemis architecture. We urge you to proceed with the planned selection and to include all necessary funding for HLS in your FY 2022 budget request.”
Artemis Human Lander Contract Decision Delayed, earlier post
Jurczyk Is Sticking With A 2024 Artemis Lunar Landing Date – For Now, earlier post

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4 responses to “Senators Urge Biden To Fully Fund Artemis Human Landing System”

  1. David Fowler says:
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    Isn’t it up to Congress to fully fund it?

    • Jeff2Space says:
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      It helps generate support among Democratic Congressmembers and Senators if it’s in the Administration’s budget request. From the article:

      We urge you to proceed with the planned selection and to include all necessary funding for HLS in your FY 2022 budget request.

  2. Johnhouboltsmyspiritanimal says:
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    Where was this support when they were short changing lander funding for this year’s budget? What is the program supposed to do with the down selection they just delayed for up to two months? Are they supposed to string the three vendors along on the hope October will bring cash? To paraphrase malcolm Reynolds from firefly “Betting on hope for any nasa program usually ends with the program on the drift begging for scraps.”

  3. Daniel Woodard says:
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    If our goal is to go to the Moon sustainably, then the operational cost of the system is critical. Unfortunately Artemis is a complex system that was required by congress to utilize components of the Space Shuttle, designed 40 years ago to be reusable, but now being remanufactured at great cost and utilized for an expendable system. The massive infrastructure, including the VAB, crawlers, and mobile launch platforms must be similarly modified and maintained. With sufficient resources the system can function, as the Shuttle did, but it is difficult to see any path to a sustainable cost. The taxpayers will pay for the first flight, but who will pay for the tenth, or the 500th? It would perhaps be more effective to decide what goals NASA wishes to fund, and then let industry propose solutions.