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#NASA #NAC #HEO - Jim Free, we want to get on pace to launch every year, that will be a challenge to ac hive without the budget to go with it. Will work closely with the Centers, will have great collaboration but will also be a time when we need to talk stuff though

#NASA #NAC #HEO - Want a sustained presence meaning a robotic presence on the Moon when we don't have crew present

#NASA #NAC #HEO Free: Were going to transition program to operations; Agency decided NOT to do that, so a new organization had to be established

#NASA #NAC #HEO First placard who's the Organization chart as of March 2023, and second is the org chart currently.

#NASA #NAC #HEO - Moon to Mars Program Office Mars campaign is not doing the architecture but they are looking at tech development. The intent is to make sure they are connected to what we're doing on the lunar surface.

#NASA #NAC #HEO - Free: Proposed budget for '24 - do have an increasing budget; if we're going to fly every year, we'll need the budget to do that. We need to put ourselves on a path to Mars, if we're going to go in 2039, we need to get things in place.

#NASA #NAC #HEO - Jim Free quoting @EllenStofan as saying that Mars will always be 20 years away until we actually make the decision to go there

#NASA #NAC #HEO - Q: Is there significant variance between the budget request and the money you need to do the work? A: There always will be differences. The Administrator definitely went to bat for the agency.

#NASA #NAC #HEO - Hale: The kind of space program we have really depends on the public and the priorities they have.

#NASA #NAC #HEO Some of the content changes, additional $$ to support ML 2 ( Mobile Launcher 2) Future surface systems have to start buying the risks down today. Everything we're trying to do with HLS and the second lander, and on Gateway have some funding changes there, too

#NASA #NAC #HEO - Manifest comes out and everyone sees Artemis slipped out 9 months, we saying to our contractors is keep to the deliverable dates. ( Just lost audio feed )

#NASA #NAC #HEO (Audio Returned) Free: trying to carry a manifest that goes though the mission directorates to achieve the directives that the agency has put in place.

#NASA #NAC #HEO Free: Have to bulid an architecture that sticks to the objectives. That's our job to develop and owen the architecture along with the mission directorates

#NASA #NAC #HEO Free; We're not going to satisfy all of the program objectives in one flight. We can tie our strategy down to specific goals and directorates.

#NASA #NAC #HEO - Documents that were rolled out at the Space Symposium this year along with the white papers. These will be the products we'll go over in each review.

#NASA #NAC #HEO - So how are we getting feedback?

#NASA #NAC #HEO - European Service Module performed well on Artemis 1, CanadArm3 is between PDR & CDR, The refueling module for Gateway is under review in France, Pressurized lunar rover and surface habitation is moving, Lunar Cargo Lander has been approved in Europe, & CSA Rover

#NASA #NAC #HEO - Jim Free ends his presentation