GAO: Human Space Exploration: Persistent Delays and Cost Growth Reinforce Concerns over Management of Programs “In November 2018, within one year of announcing an up to 19-month delay for the […]
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GAO Report Cites Major NASA Project Delays
GAO Report to Congress: NASA Assessments of Major Projects “The cost and schedule performance of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) portfolio of major projects continues to deteriorate. For […]
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NASA-Funded Report Says Mars 2033 Is Really Mars 2037/2039
Evaluation of a Human Mission to Mars by 2033 – Full report(PDF) “In August 2017, NASA asked the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) to conduct this independent assessment, […]
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Limited SLS Options Ahead?
Listening to @NASA community feedback It would seem that there are almost as many people at NASA who are worried about promising a 2020 launch date for EM-1 on @NASA_SLS […]
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Suddenly Boeing Has A Way To Speed Up EM-1
Is’nt it interesting that @nasa_sls team suddenly starts to come up with ways to accelerate #SLS EM-1 but only after @JimBridenstine started talking about commercial alternatives. Why didn’t they make […]
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Bridenstine Reassures SLS/Orion Workforce
A Message to the Workforce on SLS and Orion, NASA “Yesterday, I was asked by Congress about the schedule slip of the Space Launch System and plans to get NASA […]
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Ironically SLS Supporters Are Worried About Commercial EM-1 Costs
CDSE Statement Following Senate Commerce Hearing with the NASA Administrator “No launch vehicle other than the SLS can enable the launch of a fully-outfitted Orion, including the SM, to the […]
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Bridenstine Proposes Commercial EM-1 Mission – Without SLS
SLS Launch was supposed to be later than June 2020. As an agency we need to stick to our committments. We should launch around the Moon in June 2020. I […]
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SLS Buyer's Remorse At NASA
New White House budget spells trouble for NASA’s SLS rocket, Ars Technica “Two sources familiar with the thinking of Vice President Mike Pence–who leads US space policy–have said he is […]
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The Asymptotic Path Back To The Moon
Keith’s note: This comment was posted in response to this NASAWatch post. I hear this a lot – sadly with increasing frequency. “This (below) was written on FACEBOOK this week. […]