Ed Weiler quit NASA over Mars planetary program cuts to be announced Monday
Ed Weiler quit NASA in September because of the cuts to the Mars planetary program that the Obama administration will announce on Monday.
Weiler was NASA’s chief science administrator for most of the past thirty years.
As I have already noted, the programs that NASA shouldn’t cut are its planetary and astronomy programs. Far better to dump the Space Launch System, which eats up a lot more cash and will end up producing nothing. By doing so you would not only reduce NASA’s actual budget — thereby saving the federal government money — you could simultaneously increase the budgets of the planetary and astronomy programs.
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Ed Weiler quit NASA in September because of the cuts to the Mars planetary program that the Obama administration will announce on Monday.
Weiler was NASA’s chief science administrator for most of the past thirty years.
As I have already noted, the programs that NASA shouldn’t cut are its planetary and astronomy programs. Far better to dump the Space Launch System, which eats up a lot more cash and will end up producing nothing. By doing so you would not only reduce NASA’s actual budget — thereby saving the federal government money — you could simultaneously increase the budgets of the planetary and astronomy programs.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
“As I have already noted, the programs that NASA shouldn’t cut are its planetary and astronomy programs. Far better to dump the Space Launch System, which eats up a lot more cash and will end up producing nothing. By doing so you would not only reduce NASA’s actual budget — thereby saving the federal government money — you could simultaneously increase the budgets of the planetary and astronomy programs.”
I suppose I could suggest we all get together and sing robots über alles, but instead I will ask what I hope will be taken as a serious question (because it is).
Amidst all the wailing about the Obama Administration beginning to do to the “space science” program what it has already been doing to HSF, does anybody have any idea what the HSF budget (including the SLS and MPCV) will look like?
believe me, those budgets are Top Secret for 2 more years. manned space flight Indeed.
>.. programs that NASA shouldn’t cut are its planetary and astronomy programs. Far better to dump the Space
> Launch System, which eats up a lot more cash and will end up producing nothing. …
Really though, its the SLS thats the most “productive” since it actually keeps some HSF capacity alive, builds at least toward BEO HSF, and manitains a credible minimal industrial base nessisary to develop this stuff. As well of course politically it keeps jobs in districts.
planetary and astronomy programs (or COTS and CCDev) don’t.
Yes, but that is only true if you care anything at all about HSF.
Seems congress does.
With the possible presidential candidates we have lets hope so.