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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told members of the Senate in a CAPITOL HILL HEARING Wednesday, March 7, 2012, that spending more on the SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM (SLS) HEAVY-LIFT ROCKET and Orion crew capsule would not allow the government-owned vehicles to make their debut any sooner than 2017, reports Dan Leone at "SPACENEWS".
Bolden's remarks came in response to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. The Texas Senator sparred with Bolden over the administration's proposal to decrease funding for a rocket development program that she has championed at a congressional hearing, acoording to the "DALLAS MORNING NEWS".
Bolden made his assertion in response to complaints from the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, that President Barack Obama's 17.71 billion NASA budget proposal draws funds away from SLS and Orion to pay for a steep increase for the agency's Commercial Crew Program.
NASA is seeking nearly 3 billion for SLS and Orion for 2013. But with about 10 percent of that money budgeted for related ground and support infrastructure, funding for actual vehicle development would be about 325 million less than Congress provided for 2012.
At the same time, NASA is seeking to raise the Commercial Crew Program's budget to 830 MILLION FOR 2013, which is significantly above the 500 million Congress authorized for the program and more than double the program's current budget, according to "SPACE NEWS". NASA is trying to outsource flights to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station to the private space sector.
"I'M GOING TO PAY THE RUSSIANS 450 MILLION A YEAR FOR EVERY YEAR THAT I DON'T HAVE AN AMERICAN CAPABILITY TO PUT HUMANS INTO LOW EARTH ORBIT," Bolden testified. "I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT. YOU AND I HAVE BOTH AGREED. BUT THAT'S THE PRICE I PAY," reported "THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE".
The text of NASA Administrator Charles Bolden's remarks to the Senate Committee ARE HERE. Inclosing, General Bolden reminded that commercial spaceflight was included in the original NASA Space Act in 1958 and was also included in the President's 2010 national space policy.
General Bolden offered that an American commercial crew and cargo program needed to be developed so the American commercial companies could offer those services too ther nations that also want a way to carry crew and cargo to low Earth orbit, in his opening statement.
The space agency is weighing a proposal to build a "gateway spacecraft" that would hang in space about 277,000 miles from the Earth and 38,000 miles past the moon -- more than a quarter million miles further into space than the orbit of the International Space Station.The Deep Space Habitat project is an attempt to work out optimum size of capsule, equipment and resources to send outside of the Earth-Moon system and into deep space and support a human crew of four. L2 is probable locationThe mission would most likely be the second LAGRANGIAN POINT OF THE EARTH-MOON SYSTEM or L2. Initial concept missions for the structure to cope with cover a SIXTY-DAY JAUNT into the inky blackness, and a much-longer 500-DAY VARIANT. "[Placing a spacecraft at the Earth-Moon Lagrange point beyond the moon as a test area for human access to deep space is the best near-term option to develop required flight experience and mitigate risk," concluded a recent NASA report. The new outpost -- which may be built from parts leftover from the construction of the ISS and as well as Russian and Italian hardware -- would be an ideal first mission for the heavy lift spacecraft dubbed Space Launch System (SLS) that is being developed at NASA. Artist concept of L2 stationWith the push for exploration Beyond Earth Orbit (BEO) increasing, a proposed habitat for human exploration outside the confines of Earth's immediate space is taking shape as NASA presses forward with the development of its new Deep Space Habitat (DSH) - a module-based habitation facility that will be used as part of manned exploration missions to the moon, asteroids, and eventually Mars wrote CHRIS GEBHARDT FOR NASA SPACEFLIGHT in the spring of 2012. Colin Lecher, writing for "POPULAR SCIENCE", notes Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center and experts Johnson Space Center in Houston (led by NASA ASTRONAUT ALVIN DREW) are tinkering with the spaceship mockup, deciding the right size, necessary equipment, and everything else that's going to make a mission. The team's also planning what kind of toys will be sent along and built in. Some of it's the sort of thing you might expect from a trip like this--life support systems, food storage, etc.--but other parts of it are especially interesting. One of the best is a 3-D printer, which would allow astronauts to create any tools they need right on the spot. On the lower-tech side, there's also greenhouse for astronauts to grow their own and food, and a barrier of water on the outside that could be used to shield explorers from cosmic rays, notes Lecher.Apollo 11 lunar astronaut Buzz Aldrin has long urged NASA to set up a similar "FLOATING LAUNCHING PAD" at a different balance point between Earth and the Moon, called EML-1 OR L1, and he told "IO9" that platforms at L1 or L2, plus fueling depots for spaceships, would serve as appropriate "intermediate steps" for voyages to Mars and other worlds. Bigelow Aerospace lunar habitatAldrin's vision calls for NASA to lead in the construction of the infrastructure needed for space transport beyond Earth orbit, while leaving the development of facilities on the Moon's surface to commercial ventures. A human-tended station at EML-1 or EML-2 could help direct the robotic construction of habitats and factories on the moon, to be occupied at a later time by humans. Aldrin touted Phobos to President ObamaThe eventual goal would be to have a human-tended station on the Martian moon Phobos, directing robots to build facilities for permanent residents on the Red Planet. And then? "We make a commitment to permanence," Aldrin explained. "It's like the Pilgrims on the Mayflower." It is a bold vision with multiple civil and commercial sector destinations.
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Are Contained by NASA Through the ceiling Outcome Privately Pressuring the Aging Shuttle Park to Bring to a close by 2010, to Get ready Way for "Constellation" -- and the New "Distance Glisten" to the Moon?
Washington, DC - Japan is pronto in lunar sphere with the most fashionable lunar order to the same degree Apollo. Porcelain is about to toss a combined unmanned lunar order, on October 24th. In April, 2008 India command toss its first total unmanned lunar order. And, Russia fair announced its own determined lunar campaign -- for not plainly manner cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025, but conception of a lasting moon base soon after.
All this on the heels of Be in charge George W. Bush's own "The way you are seen for Distance Survey" (VSE) - his tart outcome to "chew on Americans to manned lunar exploration"... made peculiarly, in the purport of his war.
Why this in focus international breeding ground on a 21st Century Moon Park -- after over 30 being of the Moon being appropriately ignored? Did Apollo get entangled "something" of combined standing on the Moon, which NASA exactly forgot to tell the rest of us?
The press conference command be control be Richard C. Hoagland: previous NASA consultant; CBS Facts Science Advisor participating in the Apollo lunar missions; co-author of "Dull Mission: The Secret Memo of NASA" (pronto #1 on Amazon's list for "Astronomy," and "Distance Science"); and head of The Custom Committee. Ken Johnston, previous NASA Coordinator of the Log and Describe Cope Office of NASA's Through the ceiling Receiving Laboratory at MSC participating in the Apollo Park, command present political NASA throw.
According to the Custom Mission:
This is an era of mounting affect for habitually better government secrecy and expanding scheme. Hoagland and Johnston command data that this "less than than brusque NASA executive" faithfully began a long for time ago.
Citing data from the Native soil Aeronautics and Distance Act of 1958, Hoagland command present startling evidence that, challenging to assumptions made by politicians, members of the press and fill for come up to partly a century, NASA is NOT a "resident" space agency, but is in fact "a defense agency of the Collective States".
As a tax-supported national habitat, NASA's 1958 Congressional rent precisely instructs "Sec. 205... (d) no [NASA] information which has been classified for reasons of national security shall be included in any [NASA] report made under this class [of the Act]..." [Burden treat].
So, what criteria does NASA spend to classifying its mechanical or production information? And, what combined NASA discoveries presume never been reported - either to the Discussion, the American relations or the press -- in the same way as of NASA's authenticate risk to lie? And why may possibly these now be politically overall...?
Says Hoagland "the evidence that NASA is something other than the benignly resident science habitat it has bogus to be for 50 being, is as enticing now as it is distressing.
It is this dark order,' allowing the top to duly peace NASA's most judicious mechanical and mechanical outcome lacking level other NASA scientists or engineers, or Discussion, the press or the American relations pleasing hypersensitive, which we continue is now impelling this new 21st Century Distance Glisten.
A Glisten whose corollary - altered the first US/USSR run for tarn devotee appeal 50 being ago -- command reasonably shape the life of every one of human being now in material form on Nation, nonstop the startling mechanical discoveries we presume evidence that NASA made on the Moon participating in Apollo... brought support financially to Nation... and next successfully reticent secret for better than a epoch."
Supporting Hoagland's efficiently affecting data and ordeal, Ken Johnston, previous LRL director of NASA's photographic lunar documents in the opening 1970's, command hold a first-hand criticize of how he was precisely instructed by his NASA managers on the way to the end of the Apollo Park to inflate individualistic Apollo records of what the astronauts faithfully recorded on the Moon, wish than make happen them to a university, high edify or other fill documents.
Hoagland and Johnston - by way of these 30-year-old essential Apollo images that Johnston, in disobeying that definite guide, personally preserved - command portray appointed what NASA hoped would never tell somebody to known: the bring in remains of splendid lunar vestiges on the Moon, one of the key wished-for discoveries cited by a pre-Apollo NASA/Brookings pore over as "proficient of destroying philosophy."
Hoagland and Johnston command next tally this 30-year-old data with current Apollo images being posted on legislator NASA websites roughly speaking the world - instructive exact data of Johnston's 30-year-old claims - in the midst of, an accurate colossal turn of phrase of the affectedly boss technology the Apollo astronauts may presume returned to Nation in the last Committee of Apollo....
Richard C. Hoagland and Ken Johnston command be more or less for interviews quickly subsequent the epigrammatic which command last from 9:00 to 9:45 AM with a meditate and solution space subsequent until 11:00 AM.
