Today's Space Policy Directive 1 Thing
Remarks By President Trump and Vice President Pence at Space Policy Directive 1 Signing Ceremony
“The directive I’m signing today will refocus America’s space program on human exploration and discovery. It marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972 for long-term exploration and use. This time, we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint, we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars. And perhaps, someday, to many worlds beyond. This directive will ensure America’s space program once again leads and inspires all of humanity. The pioneer spirit has always defined America, and we’re picking that up in many other fields. I think you see that. I think it’s obvious. All you have to do is look at what’s happening with the markets and all of the great things that are happening. We’re leading in many different fields again, and it’ll get more and more obvious as you go along.”
Presidential Memorandum on Reinvigorating America’s Human Space Exploration Program
“Presidential Policy Directive-4 of June 28, 2010 (National Space Policy), is amended as follows: he paragraph beginning “Set far-reaching exploration milestones” is deleted and replaced with the following: “Lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and to bring back to Earth new knowledge and opportunities. Beginning with missions beyond low-Earth orbit, the United States will lead the return of humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilization, followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations;”.
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– Coalition for Deep Space Exploration Comment on Today’s SPD-1 by President Trump
– AIA Welcomes Presidential Announcement of Human Space Exploration Goals
– CSF Statement on President Trump signing of Space Policy Directive 1
sadly no timeframe to hold the agency feet to the fire. I am sure HQ is already spinning the current plan of gateway as on the right path even though it doesn’t deliver any crew to cis lunar until the end of a second trump term. when is the 45 day study due back to the space council? what nasa turns in and how far off it will be from landing, working, living and exploring the Moon will be interesting
and the budget for this is?
Being cut to pay for $1.5T in…..
well if you scrap sls/orion since they werent going to get you there in a timely manner that frees up what $3B a year until 2024
No bucks…No Buck Rogers…
There’s plenty of bucks. Start by canceling SLS and Orion. Develop a series of self sustaining steps, possibly depots, landers, an outpost. Eventually each cost much less yearly to keep or use vs. what was spent yearly in developing. Move on with no new budget required to reusability and resource utilization.
Engage industry and commerce so they partner, contribute and grow non-government business.
Plenty of bucks, just use whats mis-spent now toward the stated goals, only for real.
Think you could get that through the Hill. Not gonna happen, with jobs on the line in a midterm election year.
LOL. Just can’t get over that election, can ya?
re getting over the election.
I know! Seems like everyone keeps tking potshots at the President, forgetting that the people have adjudicated him, just like they are doing for Alabama. I mean it’s the PEOPLE what has the last word, amIright?
I dunno, Rick. Why can’t people accept the results, just like Majority Leader O’Connell? After Mr. Obama was elected, the Senator was patiently bidding his time, right? Senate business went on while the Majority Leader gave every judicial nomination a close inspection. These nominations are important, after all, so what difference holding them back a couple of years? They are lifetime appointments, after ll, and he just wanted to get it right.
“we are dreaming” … the rest is noise
I have decided we should increase the NASA budget to 5% of spending. The money can be got back from the military !
I think on this Trump might be right but yeah No Bucks ….. No Buck Rogers !!
Nope. Just kill SLS/Orion. In today’s day and age, we don’t need NASA flying its own launch vehicles and “crew ferry” capsules anymore than we need it operating its own airline.
The seems like an obvious response, but it’s really not simple.
Just for starters, what happens to the people working on SLS? Do we gut aerospace again just like Mr. Reagan did to Southern California? And that’s not to mention all of the equipment and other capabilities at the Cape and in Louisiana.
This isn’t a simple problem.
Change is painful, no doubt. But this sort of thing is not at all uncommon in aerospace. Engineers especially move from program to program and even company to company as government programs end and other government programs start.
It sounds like Trump is ‘allowing’ NASA to figure out some innovative ways to go to the Moon. Something different and innovative is most definitely required. NASA will not get there if it is simply a NASA program in which they wait on the Administration and the Congress to provide ample money to hire contractors to build more spaceships. We’ve been waiting on that sequence of events since 1972 and have gone nowhere. Unfortunately this does require NASA to come up with a plan and a strategy and we have not seen that NASA is able to do this.
Hopefully NASA does not see this as an either, or; either shut down ISS for its budget, or…ISS is very much still needed for research that someday might allow people to go to Mars.
This statement on the release from the White House is interesting and appears to be part of SPD 1.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/…
“Return United States astronauts to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilization;”
“AMERICA WILL HARNESS THE POWER OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY: By refocusing our space program on feasible goals, President Trump will create incentives for private industry that spur 21st century space capabilities.
The Moon is of interest to international partners and is within reach of America’s private space industry.
The United States will work with other nations and private industry to return astronauts to the Moon, developing the technology and means for manned exploration of Mars
and other destinations in our solar system.”
No, this won’t be Dr. Griffin’s Apollo on steroids, it will be leveraging SpaceX and Blue Origin. ESA may also get its Moon Village if it contributes its fair share.
Now if the Senate will just approve Rep. Bridenstine and Treasurer DeWitt we will get this train rolling!
As soon as Blue Origin manage to get out of the Atmosphere !
Senator Shelby will never give away SLS will he?
There’s nothing in the phrase “private industry” that couldn’t actually mean Boeing, Northrop and Lockmart. There’s nothing in it that means much of anything, really, It’s the actual plans “wherein we’ll see the conscience of the king.”
They need to get FH off the ground and Crew Dragon certified for Commercial Crew first. The more new NASA requirements get added to their shopping list, the more Crew Dragon and Starliner move right.
It’s going to be huge. Bigger than any moon thing ever. Apollo was a Clinton hoax. There will be a Trump Tower and a Wall on the moon soon. Great photo. Everyone’s career will be greatly enhanced by associating with Trump. Hilarious!
To bad we didn’t actually follow the VSE
Time to take the way back machine to Fed 2004 and “The Vision for Space Exploration”
Exploration Building Blocks
“In the days of the Apollo program, human exploration systems employed expendable, single-use vehicles requiring large ground crews and careful monitoring. For future, sustainable exploration programs, NASA requires cost-effective vehicles that may be reused, have systems that could be applied to more than one destination, and are highly reliable and need only small ground crews. NASA plans to invest in a number of new approaches to exploration, such as robotic networks, modular systems, pre-positioned propellants, advanced power and propulsion, and in-space assembly, that could enable these kinds of vehicles. These technologies will be demonstrated on the ground, at the Space Station and other locations in Earth orbit, and on the Moon starting this decade and into the next.
Other breakthrough technologies, such as nuclear power and propulsion, optical communications, and potential use of space resources, will be demonstrated as part of robotic exploration missions.”
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/55…
I just think where we would be right now if congress would have followed through. Look at the building blocks we passed up.
Jupiter icy Moons Orbiter
“JIMO was to have a large number of revolutionary features. Throughout its main voyage to the Jupiter moons, it was to be propelled by an ion propulsion system via either the High Power Electric Propulsion or NEXIS engine, and powered by a small fission reactor. A Brayton power conversion system would convert reactor heat into electricity. Providing a thousand times the electrical output of conventional solar- or radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG)-based power systems, the reactor was expected to open up opportunities like flying a full scale ice-penetrating radar system and providing a strong, high-bandwidth data transmitter.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
Project Prometheus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
Fuel Depots
“Rohrabacher noted “When NASA proposed on-orbit fuel depots in this Administration’s original plan for human space exploration, they said this game-changing technology could make the difference between exploring space and falling short. Then the depots dropped out of the conversation, and NASA has yet to provide any supporting documents explaining the change,” says Rohrabacher.”
Well, despite what NASA may or may not have been telling Rep. Rohrabacher about its internal evaluations regarding the merits of alternate architectures that did not use the SLS (and those that incorporated fuel depots), the agency had actually been rather busy studying those very topics.
And guess what: the conclusions that NASA arrived at during these studies are in direct contrast to what the agency had been telling Congress, the media, and anyone else who would listen.
This presentation “Propellant Depot Requirements Study – Status Report – HAT Technical Interchange Meeting – July 21, 2011” is a distilled version of a study buried deep inside of NASA. The study compared and contrasted an SLS/SEP architecture with one based on propellant depots for human lunar and asteroid missions. Not only was the fuel depot mission architecture shown to be less expensive, fitting within expected budgets, it also gets humans beyond low Earth orbit a decade before the SLS architecture could.
Moreover, supposed constraints on the availability of commercial launch alternatives often mentioned by SLS proponents, was debunked. In addition, clear integration and performance advantages to the use of commercial launchers Vs SLS was repeatedly touted as being desirable: “breaking costs into smaller, less-monolithic amounts allows great flexibility in meeting smaller and changing budget profiles.””
http://www.spaceref.com/new…
We would be in such a better position today.
Oh yea of such little faith, can’t open your eyes to the paradigm shift that has just happened before your very eyes where the timeline of all our dreams of the future in space that we all were promised are about to unfold at such a rapid pace. You don’t see it because you’re all sitting there thinking the government has to lead the way into this new frontier. I already know Jeff Bezos and, with the recently announced policy change by Elon Musk, tells me he gets it…
Keep dreaming.
Meet the new boss….same as the old boss…
To be specific, this is the paragraph being replaced.
The Administrator of NASA shall:
“Set far-reaching exploration milestones.By 2025, begin crewed missions beyond the moon, including sending humans to an asteroid.By the mid-2030s, send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth;”
with the new goals for NASA
“Lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with
commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and to bring back to Earth new knowledge and opportunities. Beginning with missions beyond low-Earth orbit, the United States will lead the return of humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilization, followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations;”.
The addition of “Lead an innovative and sustainable” and “commercial and international partners” is significant as it highlights NASA is not expected to do it alone but by leveraging private and foreign partnerships which is far more realistic politically and in terms of budgets. It opens the door for SpaceX, Blue Origin, Bigelow Aerospace and the ESA Moon Village. Now all we need is a NASA Administrator to do the leading.
It also opens the door to dumping SLS/Orion if they are not able to contribute to the goal without having to start over, something that was impossible under the old goal where they were central and critical to it.
BTW the link to the June 28, 2010 National Space Policy referenced is at https://www.nasa.gov/sites/…