Does NASA still have Chandbound, or the next huge jump means to skip directly to Mars?
Speculation is increasing that the Trump administration may return or cancel NASA’s Artemis missions after the departure of a prominent officer and Boeing’s plans, plans to close hundreds of employees working on their lunar rocket.
Late on Wednesday night, NASA suddenly announced the retirement of Associate Administrator Jim Free on Saturday.
No reason was given for free departure after a 30-year increase in NASA’s top civilian-service condition. However, he was a strong lawyer for Artemis, aimed at the crew to return to the moon, establish a constant appearance, and to use that experience for the preparation of a Mars mission.
Although Artemis was imagined in the first term of President Donald Trump, he has openly introduced the moon about bypassing and going directly to Mars – Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and the owner of SpaceX Getting an assumption in form, becomes a major partner and advisor.
Musk’s spacex, established to make humanity a multilateral species, is placing heavy bets on its prototype starship rocket for future Mars mission.
Trump has also exploited private astronaut and e-pay billionaire billionaire Jered Isaqman, who is a close musk, who has flew into space twice with SpaceX as his next NASA chief.
Boeing told employees in this month that this Space Launch System (SLS) could “align and expect costs with 400 jobs from the rocket program” Artemis program amended and expect cost “.
The aerospace giant told AFP, “The affected employees will need a 60-day notice of involuntary pruning in the coming weeks, as per the worker adjustment and notification Act,” the aerospace giant told the AFP.
Keith Cating, former NASA scientist and founder of NASA Watch, told Boeing to “Saw Writing”, AFP.
To date, SLS has blown just one mission – Ancred Artemis 1 – 2022 – and has proved to be extremely expensive. This is “likely to blow up one or two missions, or they will cancel it outright,” COWING said.
– Improvement or scrap? ,
Doubt about highly expensive SLS and Orion crew capsules – whose heat shield delayed future artemis missions – is widespread among space viewers.
Nevertheless, many lawyers reform, not canceled.
At a meeting of an American Astronaut Society in October, Free said, “We should stay with the plan now.”
“This does not mean that we cannot perform better … but we need to keep this destination of the moon from the perspective of a human spacecraft. If we lose it, I believe that we believe that we Will separate and wander, and other people will pass us in it. “
Space Policy analyst Laura Formsky noted that another officer was free to become an interim administrator of NASA before he was passed in favor of Janet Petro.
He warned that a significant test for technologies required to ensure a safe Mars trip from finishing the moon would be removed.
While Musk called Artemis a “Jobs-Maximizing Program” and said “something completely new,” the initiative enjoys the support of strong Congress.
It supports thousands of jobs in states including Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, with the support of major Republicans including Senator Ted Cruise.
Leaving the moon will leave China to leave China, which is set to put its flag on the Dhruv of the lunar south with a planned 2030 crew mission.
Forczyk believes that Artemis is more likely to improve than scraps, SLS is potentially limited to private companies to one or two flights – such as blue origin of spacex or jeff bezos – The blue original – leads to major roles – lead roles. .
“However, the Trump administration is unpredictable, and we can’t actually meet Donald Trump or Kasturi’s mind,” he told AFP.
Another emerging uncertainty is how Trump’s extensive effort to reduce the federal government can affect NASA.
A NASA spokesperson told the AFP on Thursday that about five percent of the workforce continued to receive the salary by September and accepted the “resignation” proposal to allow them to be on administrative leave.
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