Proclaiming A New Space Race Without A Plan To Win It

Keith’s note: According to “According to “There’s a Bad Moon on the Rise: Why Congress and NASA Must Thwart China in the Space Race“: there is a hearing on 3 September at 10:00 10:30 am EDT that “is an important opportunity to chart a course that reinforces American leadership in space, strengthens NASA, fuels our growing commercial space sector, and protects our economic and national security interests in the final frontier.” OK fine. Let’s beat China in space. Why not. It should be simple: get your A-Team in place and give them the resources to compete. But wait: is gutting NASA’s scientific and engineering expertise, slashing its budgets, and continually chopping, delaying, and reconfiguring NASA’s Artemis progam the way to do this? No. Let’s see if Ted Cruz and his witnesses can find a solution. Or (more likely) watch them just point out the problems while skating around – and over – the essential and obvious things that need to be put in place. Live webcast: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/home