Keith’s note: The path NASA was on included ISS and one, maybe two, LEO space stations requiring heavy subsidies – plus the mini-lunar space station Gateway. Funding was lacking for this big space party which was always over budget and years behind schedule. And oh yes, let’s land people on the Moon. The fact that all the big players (old space and new space alike) who always need more money and (risk little of their own) complain off the record to media means that Jared Isaacman must have struck the right nerve – with precision. This whole thing needs to be rebooted. That’s the plan and it’s long overdue. Just sayin’.
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
Well, Issacman has already soft-booted Artemis.
And soft-booted science, I guess.
What would hard booting look like?
Let’s see how suddenly-anointed savior Isaacman does with his boss’s budget.