NASA Is Not Part Of The OSTP Tech Road Show
Keith’s note: According to this OSTP Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration to Kick off Fourth Investing in America Tour to Highlight How the President Is Delivering for Communities in Every Corner of America: “Throughout the Investing in America tour, President Biden, Vice President Harris, First Lady Jill Biden, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, Cabinet members, and Senior Administration Officials will visit communities across the country where the President is cutting costs for American families, growing our clean energy economy, rebuilding our infrastructure, and creating good-paying jobs along the way. To date, the Administration has now launched over 50,000 infrastructure and clean energy projects and mobilized over $640 billion in private sector clean energy and manufacturing investments.” Alas, NASA is mentioned nowhere in this fact sheet. The fact sheet points to a Brookings Institution report – which also makes no mention of NASA or space. Remember the early days of this Administration when the President pointed out a Moon rock in the oval office? Looks like NASA has lost its mojo. As for the National Space Council – which is supposed to worry about these sort of things – nothing but crickets.
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Well remember, 3 years ago we were going to be landing people on the Moon in 2024. Npw, maybe it will happen during the next Administration.
It’s an election year and space isn’t anywhere near the top of the issues list. If NASA does something that gets much attention, they’ll trot out grinning Nelson to take credit.
Not much going on to show for space. Biggest thing the last few years was Webb and that does not make easy translation to ground applications. ISS is doing the same science they’ve been doing for the last 25 years and for 20 years before that with few serious discoveries. The Moon is sometime in the future, maybe the distant future, but in any case its success wil be thanks to commercial industries like Space X.
I have to add, even if Nasa were doing anything worthwhile they do a very poor job of telling the story. Every project, and even subprojects tell their own individual stories, and there are so many, most of a minor nature, that no one can follow it and no one cares. Look at this Moon crew; trotted out a year ago, won’t fly for another 2 years, in an automated spacecraft (so what are thy training for), and yet they’re trying to report on their every move. Who cares?