Big changes are likely at NASA. arstechnica.com/space/2024/1... - ThreadSky

blessforward.bsky.social•65 days ago

Why are you refusing to release the names of the transition team? Why are you scared or hiding? It’s public info.

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spacealexspace.bsky.social•65 days ago

📌

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genejm1017.bsky.social•67 days ago

Getting to Mars by 2028? No. We'll be lucky of the SpaceX HLS is ready to go to the Moon by 2028. Moving NASA HQ out of DC to another NASA center? No. NASA needs to be where the decisions on its fate are made. Closing Ames & Goddard? The California and Maryland Congressional folks will block it.

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preimage.bsky.social•67 days ago

Starship hasn’t even done a single in-space refueling yet.

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

STARSHIP HAS NOT EVEN FLOWN IN ORBIT

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preimage.bsky.social•67 days ago

STARSHIP IS POOP

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ragingspirit.bsky.social•67 days ago

I would the describe any scenario in which Musk gets the majority of NASA budget as "Rogozination". You know, rampant corruption, talent erosion, worsening employee compensation and degradation in actual capabilities.

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prmbh.bsky.social•67 days ago

Thanks for the reporting, Eric. Curious to see which if any of these can get through Congress.

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tmfassociates.bsky.social•66 days ago

Re Silicon Valley relocation: is it wise to be located in the most expensive place in the country when NASA can’t (& shouldn’t) compete with private sector payscales? Will the most talented people come to work there or are you just left with old timers who bought homes in SV a few decades ago?

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tmfassociates.bsky.social•66 days ago

Silicon Valley is a less than ideal location for many space hardware companies (or any manufacturing business) nowadays. The legacy businesses (SS/L & Lockheed) that fed startups for many years are fading away/relocating too.

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rocketplane.bsky.social•66 days ago

NASA is not a space hardware manufacturer.

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rocketplane.bsky.social•66 days ago

Who is Phil Trubey? He sounds like a fucking moron.

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rocketplane.bsky.social•66 days ago

DOGE is a fantasy agency with no funding or legal authority.

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rocketplane.bsky.social•59 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgvrljSlGKc

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rocketplane.bsky.social•63 days ago

https://spacenews.com/noisy-booster-landings-can-impede-spaceflight-progress-congress-was-right-to-step-in/

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rocketplane.bsky.social•64 days ago

In an interview Nelson points out Isaacman needs to make friends in congress because the Executive branch can only propose the NASA budget while it is congress who enacts it.

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rocketplane.bsky.social•65 days ago

@jackiewattles.bsky.social @lorengrush.bsky.social @joroulette.bsky.social @jfoust.bsky.social @marinakoren.bsky.social SLS/Orion/Artemis are our only SERIOUS plans for leaving LEO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTiM7dVp-wU

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rocketplane.bsky.social•66 days ago

These sound like a Musk nitwit idea: "Establishing the goal of sending humans to the Moon and Mars, by 2028
Canceling the costly Space Launch System rocket and possibly the Orion spacecraft
Consolidating Goddard Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama"

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spacehigh2024.bsky.social•66 days ago

Yup

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

@joroulette.bsky.social @jackiewattles.bsky.social @lorengrush.bsky.social @marinakoren.bsky.social @mentges.bsky.social @jfoust.bsky.social When you correct for inflation developing and building Shuttle cost $35 billion.

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

@joroulette.bsky.social @jackiewattles.bsky.social @lorengrush.bsky.social @marinakoren.bsky.social @mentges.bsky.social @jfoust.bsky.social When you correct for inflation Apollo cost $260 billion. Gemini and Surveyor were another $20 billion in addition to that.

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

Manned Mars Landing
Presentation to the Space Task Group
By:
Dr. Wernher von Braun
August 4, 1969 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20240011937/downloads/1969-08%20MSFC%20von%20Braun%20-%20Manned%20Mars%20Landing.pdf

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

@jfoust.bsky.social @joroulette.bsky.social @jackiewattles.bsky.social @lorengrush.bsky.social @marinakoren.bsky.social @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social Thinking it's possible to just pick up and move Ames to Marshall is just dumb as fuck. https://www.nasa.gov/ames/core-area-of-expertise-aeroscience/

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metareferential.bsky.social•66 days ago

Let's not forget the goddamn 2500hp centrifuge.

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rocketplane.bsky.social•66 days ago

Exactly!

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

@jackiewattles.bsky.social @joroulette.bsky.social @lorengrush.bsky.social @marinakoren.bsky.social @mentges.bsky.social @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social Thinking you can move Glenn to Marshall is ignorant as shit. Here's the Glenn supersonic wind tunnel. https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/facilities/8x6/

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

@dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social @jackiewattles.bsky.social @joroulette.bsky.social @lorengrush.bsky.social @mentges.bsky.social @marinakoren.bsky.social ANY viable manned mars mission architecture will be based on nuclear rockets.

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

"Consolidating Goddard Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama" Expensive as fuck as if you want recreate the wind tunnels and other research facilities that don't exist at Marshall, even assuming you can everyone and their families to relocate.

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

"Canceling the costly Space Launch System rocket and possibly the Orion spacecraft" IDIOTIC

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

"Establishing the goal of sending humans to the Moon and Mars, by 2028" DELUSIONAL

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

"Rapidly redesigning the Artemis lunar program to make it more efficient" DELUSIONAL

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

"Retaining a small administration presence in Washington, DC, but otherwise moving headquarters to a field center" There is some merit to that.

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

@dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social @jackiewattles.bsky.social @joroulette.bsky.social @lorengrush.bsky.social For over 50 years NASA's budget has hovered between 0.5% and 0.9% of the federal budget. If Isaacman thinks he can make NASA do more with the same budget he's out of his mind.

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

Trying to make NASA accomplish more by making it more "efficient" is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. At the height of Apollo NASA's budget was 5% of the federal budget (Isaacman confuses it with GDP).

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

@jackiewattles.bsky.social @joroulette.bsky.social @lorengrush.bsky.social @marinakoren.bsky.social @jfoust.bsky.social @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social Here's something that puts Starship development into perspective. ALL TWELVE LAUNCHES OF THE SATURN V achieved orbit.

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dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social•67 days ago

If you use my stuff, don't forget the link to the original source - thanks!

https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2015/08/failure-was-option-what-if-apollo.html

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

Excerpt from "No Shortage of Dreams" by David Portree @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social. The 3rd and 4th Saturn V close calls.

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dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social•67 days ago

Thanks for the links

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

You're welcome!

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rocketplane.bsky.social•67 days ago

@jackiewattles.bsky.social @lorengrush.bsky.social @marinakoren.bsky.social @joroulette.bsky.social @jfoust.bsky.social @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social THERE IS NOT A COMMERCIAL ROCKET that can do what SLS does. Starship is not remotely close to being a viable rocket for ANY application.

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