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> 4/ Asked what the biggest challenges are, Fox says first is funding, citing Mars Sample Return, and second is the uncertainty surrounding the commercial LEO destinations.
> 5/ Ken Bowersox says depending on resources available, the may have to “change the pace of our transition” from ISS to commercial destinations.
>“We’re going to have to work together as a team to figure out how to make that transition as smooth as possible.”
> 6/ Free says when it comes to budgeting and advocacy in the federal budget, they all need to fight for each other’s programs.
> 7/ Prasun Desai, the associate administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate, says one of the successes has been commercial partnerships.
>Says investment of advocacy can help move things forward.
> 8/ Fox says they’re seeing success with the CLPS program even though they haven’t launched yet because “we have new commercial partners, which was not possible before.”
> 9/ Free says there’s more opportunity to “tell a compelling story about how we’re changing human history.”
> 10/ Asked about SpaceX HLS schedule, Free says they need IFT-2 to go, but says there are a bunch of other components ahead of Artemis III as well, like EVA suits, docking port.
>Declines to share details of schedule.
> 11/ Asked about something in the Space Ops or Space Tech directorates that made them go “That’s cool!” Desai teases that there will be a press release coming this week for a new telescope inspired when a researcher was at home making pudding.
>Something to keep an eye on.