/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12543697
>They had to push for a lot of corrective actions against vendors due to the parts problems.
extra $6bn in cost overruns, launch pushed back to 2046, vendor ceos to receive a bonus

>>12440462
you know exactly why

>>11953529
FOREIGNERS KILLING AMERICANS

>>11901264
pardon me?

worthy of a repost
>following the Agency’s April 30 decision, leaders of the Committee reiterated their concerns and expressed disappointment in NASA’s deviation from Congressional intent with bill H.R. 5666
>congress had directed NASA to place more focus on sending humans to Mars than on returning to the Moon, to delay sending a crewed mission to the Moon until 2028, and to have full ownership of the lunar lander, instead of buying those services from a private company amd deemphasized many of the scientific plans related to lunar missions that are seen as vital to NASA, including making use of lunar ice at the Moon, and it sought to restrict the development of a “continuously crewed lunar outpost or research station”
>the CLPS initiative has the legislators’ approval, but they also direct NASA to use lunar landers that operate using the Space Launch System
>curiously significant because all three cosponsors of H.R. 5666 receive thousands of dollars in campaign funding from a Boeing-associated PAC each campaign cycle
>Upon closer look, it is not the fact that NASA is partnering with private companies that seems to bother original cosponsors of this bill; instead, the opposition stems from the way in which NASA is doing it and who the Agency is doing it with.

>>11774900