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Bowersox cited five separate actions taken by NASA to deal with commercial crew delays, which received approval from the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.
The Senate version of a NASA authorization bill, approved by the Senate Commerce Committee on Nov. 13, would extend NASA's INKSNA waiver through the end of 2030.
The WFIRST telescope uses a 2.4-meter primary mirror that NASA inherited from another U.S. government agency, most likely the National Reconnaissance Office.
Finalists for Deal of the Year included SpaceX raising $1,000,000,000+, NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services awards, OneWeb raising $1,000,000,000+, HawkEye 360’s $70,000,000 Series B, Virgin Galactic’s IPO, Relativity’s $140,000,000 round, the Raytheon-United Technologies merger, and the L3-Harris Corp. merger.
The Senate CJS bill approved 2019-09-26 provided NASA with $22,750,000,000 including most, but not all, of the $1,600,000,000 the administration requested in May for the Artemis lunar exploration program.
Most of the initial infrastructure for landing humans on the moon, including the Space Launch System, first elements of the lunar Gateway, and lunar landers, will be provided by NASA or American companies contracted by NASA.
Congress could potentially save taxpayers up to $1 billion by allowing NASA to select the most cost-effective launch vehicle for the Europa Clipper mission.
Spacecraft in the first two tiers are approved by their sponsoring agency, sometimes with review by an Interagency Nuclear Safety Review Board that NASA is tasked to establish within 180 days.
The Mars 2020 rover mission and the Dragonfly mission to Titan are the only upcoming NASA missions formally approved for development that will use radioisotope thermoelectric generators.
NASA plans to expand the Gateway with additional habitation, utilization, and other modules provided by international partners, with timing and specifics yet to be determined.
OrbitBeyond received a $97,000,000 CLPS task order for its lunar lander mission, the largest of three task orders NASA awarded in May 2020.
NASA’s most recent Pegasus XL contract, awarded in November 2014 for the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission, had a total cost of $56,400,000.
SOFIA was one of NASA’s largest operational astrophysics projects, receiving $85,200,000 in fiscal year 2018.
NASA believes it is possible to perform the first launch of the Space Launch System before the end of 2020 even if the agency retains some version of the core stage static-fire green run test.
NASA plans to launch a 1,050-kilogram rover to Jezero Crater during the July–August 2020 Mars launch window.
NASA plans to launch Exploration Mission-1 as an uncrewed Orion test flight on the first flight of SLS in 2020.
When NASA awarded commercial crew contracts in September 2014, the agency set a goal of having both SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner certified to carry people by the end of 2017.
NASA indicated it was unlikely to remove an instrument from Mars 2020 because most hardware was already built, integrated, and being tested and removing an instrument would offer limited savings at a late development stage.
NASA originally planned for Boeing and SpaceX commercial crew vehicles to be certified by the end of 2017.
NASA planned to complete assessments of the shutdown's effects on most missions in development by mid to late February.