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White House Slips A Cislunar Strategy Out Under The Door After Hours

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
November 18, 2022
White House Slips A Cislunar Strategy Out Under The Door After Hours
Cislunar report

Keith’s 17 Nov note: OSTP released this cislunar report today albeit in stealth mode – either that or they started to drop media outlets off of their press list – assuming that they even bother with that sort of thing any more. You’d think that the National Space Council or NASA would make mention. Guess again. Oh yes America has a large spaceship heading through cislunar space right now. Oh well. OSTP says: “Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released the first National Cislunar Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy to address how U.S. S&T leadership will support responsible, peaceful, and sustainable exploration and use of Cislunar space—the large region of space in the Earth-Moon system beyond geosynchronous (GEO) orbit, including the Moon—by all space-faring nations and entities, consistent with the U.S. Space Priorities Framework”. Keith’s 18 Nov update: @Astro_Pam just tweeted something and @NASA retweeted it – a day after the report was quietly released. Still no media outreach from OSTP. Still no mention on NASA.gov either. You’d think that an ACTUAL CISLUAR MISSION would be a good time to cross promote? Right? More.

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3 responses to “White House Slips A Cislunar Strategy Out Under The Door After Hours”

  1. Bob Mahoney says:
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    Seems rather bland.

  2. mfwright says:
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    This report has generalities, I have to admit I don’t fully understand how this strategy will result 20 years from now. There is also the issue of reasonable financial support in the future. We’ve seen how strategies outlined just after Apollo 11, others such as SEI and VSE and results of those strategies. But then there’s lots more discussion about the moon, before there was not unless it was part of manned Mars mission (it still is but that M word not mentioned much). Overall it appears we may see more activity than the handful of programs besides, LRO, LCROSS, LADEE, and VIPER. I’ve not run the numbers but seems lots more earth orbital missions with many new space startups. Will we see such around the moon? I’ve heard many NASA divisions struggle to get funding but if they say their projects or facilities support Artemis then congress/senate generally support Artemis and be willing to provide funding than if the projects is just by itself.

  3. Dennis Michael Spencer says:
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    An argument could be made that SLS costs and single use hardly benefit from scrutiny by the general press.
    There’s perhaps tacit recognition that SLS/Artemis represent a technological dead end, given the future represented by SS (and others). Maybe best to limit the crowing.

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