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NASA to Provide Coverage of Key Events at 70th International Astronautical Congress
“NASA will provide live coverage on NASA Television of key events at the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), which takes place Oct. 21-25 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. In addition, the agency will provide coverage of other events during the week online and via its social media channels.”
IAC 2019 website
Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member... More by Keith Cowing
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Looks like Buzz Aldrin has started it off with some interesting statements.
https://www.geekwire.com/20…
Buzz Aldrin shares latest moonshot vision: No to NASA’s Gateway, but yes to China
by Alan Boyle on October 20, 2019 at 7:53 pm
“We can’t cancel SLS, we all know that,” Aldrin said. “Politics and big-company persistence … lobbyists … Congress … that is what has messed up our program.”
On both Gateway and the politics surrounding the SLS, I think Buzz nailed it!
Wow! The answer we’ve waited for, to the question poised over and over by our host: does NASA even know how to provide access to these events?
Turns out they do!
Surely Mr. Cowing will be pleased with this news.
SpaceX announced an aspirational goal of landing a cargo Starship on the Moon in 2022 and manned Starship on the Moon in 2024.
I think they ultimately have the capability to do this because they are designing a ship and production process to build it in a cost effective manner.
Despite NASA’s best efforts, I never heard a convincing argument for why Gateway was necessary or what it would provide other than requiring a series of vehicles to get a lander down to and then return from the Moon’s surface. I heard some arguments that we were now so far into it that changing from Gateway would cause a major disruption, though building the Lander, the descent vehicle and the ascent vehicle all impose additional burden in terms of time and cost. I also heard some concerns expressed about what astronauts would do while inhabiting the Gateway.