Trump's next budget could give NASA a huge funding windfall

[kevindavis007]

The money would help fulfill dreams of returning to the Moon.

If NASA is going to fulfill its goal of returning to the Moon by 2024, it's going to need a lot of money in very short order -- and that might be forthcoming. The Trump administration is proposing one of the largest NASA budgets in years as part of its latest budget, earmarking $25 billion for the space agency versus the $19 billion from the first year of the administration and $22 billion for this year. Nearly $3 billion of that would be devoted to creating the vehicles needed for the Artemis program. The budget is also poised to outline Artemis' complete costs and provide a clearer roadmap for the 2024 mission.

Read More: https://www.isn-news.com/2020/02/trumps-next-budget-could-give-nasa-huge.html

Make America Great In Space Again!

[Absalom]

After any and all urgent financing needs are met, suggest whatever funding is available be
dedicated to revitalizing our embarrassing non-urban RR system.
We urgently need to take pressure off our nation-wide worn down bridge, road and tunnel infrastructure which is used by millions daily.
In contrast Space Travel is a boring trip around Earth or some other body which is of interest
to perhaps a dozen people every few years.

[GtHawk]

After any and all urgent financing needs are met, suggest whatever funding is available be
dedicated to revitalizing our embarrassing non-urban RR system.
We urgently need to take pressure off our nation-wide worn down bridge, road and tunnel infrastructure which is used by millions daily.
In contrast Space Travel is a boring trip around Earth or some other body which is of interest
to perhaps a dozen people every few years.

I thought Barry took care of that infrastructure thingy, wasn't that what he and Slow Joe hyped The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as accomplishing?

[kevindavis007]

After any and all urgent financing needs are met, suggest whatever funding is available be
dedicated to revitalizing our embarrassing non-urban RR system.
We urgently need to take pressure off our nation-wide worn down bridge, road and tunnel infrastructure which is used by millions daily.
In contrast Space Travel is a boring trip around Earth or some other body which is of interest
to perhaps a dozen people every few years.

@Absalom


Sorry, I have been hearing that crap for over 40 years.  As far as the RR, guess what passenger rail in America is DEAD!!

[kevindavis007]

I thought Barry took care of that infrastructure thingy, wasn't that what he and Slow Joe hyped The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as accomplishing?

@GtHawk


I thought so too as well.

[Absalom]

@Absalom
Sorry, I have been hearing that crap for over 40 years.  As far as the RR, guess what passenger rail in America is DEAD!!

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Both Cargo and Passenger Rail remains alive, well and very profitable in both Asia and Europe;
as it was in the US for over 100 years, till our political assholery interfered.
Suggest we ignore space fantasies and focus on it!!!!!

[Joe Wooten]

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Both Cargo and Passenger Rail remains alive, well and very profitable in both Asia and Europe;
as it was in the US for over 100 years, till our political assholery interfered.
Suggest we ignore space fantasies and focus on it!!!!!

Cargo rail survives quite nicely without government funding. Passenger rail is profitable ONLY in the Boston to DC corridor, elsewhere it needs a government subsidy to compete with cars and air travel. Let it die. We have spent billions on the roads in the last 20 years and most of it was wasted on pork. The deal with the interstate system was that the feds built them and the states maintained them, but most states pissed away the maintenance money on subsidizing mass transit in the cities and other vote buying schemes and neglected maintenance because there was very little graft.

That being said, I'm not necessarily in favor of giving NASA a blank check. It is not the go-getter engineering organization it was in the 60's. It is another federal bureaucratic organization that pisses away money on mismanaged projects like the Senate Launch System and the Webb telescope. A LOT of money for sending people back to the moon could be found by cancelling Artemis and the SLS and using the Falcon heavy and a modified Dragon to go back.

[Elderberry]

The government needs to get out of the Space Business other than performing Federal Space Administration functions similar to the FAA.