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Jan 19 6 tweets 2 min read
NASA’s Amit Kshatriya tells the NAC HEO committee they’re targeting “around the 15th or so” of February for SLS rollout, followed by wet dress rehearsal by the end of the month.
Mark Kirasich describes progress on the HLS award to SpaceX. SpaceX completed five milestones when protests/suits about award were cleared. Image
Kirasich says the draft RFP for the Lunar Exploration Transportation Services (LETS) program, which will procuring landing services for missions after Artemis 3, should be released this spring.
A chart of upcoming events for development of the Gateway, including a series of critical design reviews for the initial elements. Image
Kirasich: NASA received 21 responses to a second request for information about an unpressurized rover concept called the Lunar Terrain Vehicle; hope to get into procurement later this year. Image
Kirasich shows again this manifest of upcoming Artemis missions:

Artemis 3: landing, no Gateway
Artemis 4: Gateway assembly, no landing
Artemis 5: Gateway and landing Image

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Jan 18
NASA’s Jim Free shows projected launches and other milestones for NASA exploration and space operations. The March 31 date for the Ax-1 mission is new to me; it was Feb. 28. ImageImage
Free says the reorg of HEOMD into separate exploration and space ops mission directorates still going through approval processes (OMB, Congress, unions), hope “in the near term” all stakeholders approve.
Current manifest of Artemis missions. Artemis 2 is mid-2024 but will depend how well Artemis 1 goes (crew selection is later this year, which is what you’d expect for a 2024 launch.) Artemis 4 is currently planned only for Gateway; after Artemis 3 next landing is Artemis 5. Image
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Oct 20, 2021
Second day of public comments for the FAA environmental review of SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy launch operations at Boca Chica is underway.
“I love you, SpaceX. I love you Elon Musk, too,” says the second commenter this evening.
The next commenter then said SpaceX was “another example of environmental racism.”

Not expecting a lot of middle ground tonight.
Read 11 tweets
Oct 19, 2021
Not a lot new on the NASA/Boeing Starliner briefing right now. They have now removed two valves from the spacecraft to be sent to NASA MSFC for analysis, including CT scans.
NASA’s Steve Stich says that NASA’s plan is still, once Boeing’s Starliner gets certified, to alternate between Starliner and Crew Dragon missions to the ISS. Looking to add additional flights to the contracts (especially for SpaceX.)
Stich: I have no reason to believe that Boeing won’t be successful in getting Starliner operational.
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Oct 18, 2021
From the ongoing public hearing on Starship/Super Heavy launches from Boca Chica.
The presentation was otherwise a recap of the draft environmental assessment released last month. Now a Spanish version of the same presentation before going on to public comment.
Now time for public comments. More than 100 people have signed up; each gets up to 3 minutes. Could be a while.
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Oct 18, 2021
Senate appropriators: we think NASA should fund two HLS landers, not one, so we’ll increase the program’s budget by… 8%.
Curious item in Earth science: Senate appropriators want NASA to “support the development and demonstration of a prototype on-orbit robotically assembled Earth Science Platform.” No funding specified for it, though.
As others have noted, the report does not explicitly fund the SOFIA airborne observatory. NASA sought to terminate the program in its budget request but the House restored funding.
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Sep 23, 2021
NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) chair Patricia Sanders on this week’s HEOMD reorganization: effectiveness of any organizational change depends on execution. Agency does have two capable leaders for the new organization (Free and Lueders).
Sanders also reiterates a longstanding concern of ASAP that there is no lead federal agency for space traffic management; a “critical safety issue” still not addressed by Congress.
ASAP’s David West says the Crew-2 Crew Dragon will do a 360-degree flyaround of the ISS after undocking in November; the first by a US spacecraft since the shuttle era.
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