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Christopher Scolese served in the U.S. Navy, worked as a Department of Defense civilian, and has spent most of his government career at NASA.
NASA plans to use Restore-L, based on the SSL-1300 bus, to refuel the almost 20-year-old Landsat-7 satellite.
The House passed an omnibus appropriations bill on 2019-01-23, by a 234–180 vote that would fund most agencies affected by the shutdown, other than the Department of Homeland Security, for the remainder of fiscal 2019 and would provide $21,500,000,000 to NASA.
NASA postponed its Day of Remembrance that had been scheduled for 2019-01-31, because most NASA employees were on furlough.
Before nations report progress under the Paris agreement in 2023, space and environmental agencies plan to launch MicroCarb led by CNES; EUMETSAT’s Metop Second Generation A; the Methane Remote Sensing Lidar Mission, a joint project of DLR and CNES; and NASA’s GeoCarb.
Greg Autry proposed offering a $2,000,000,000 prize for the first company to land humans on the Moon and $1,000,000,000 for the second company in parallel to NASA’s program of record.
NASA aims to launch two long-delayed space science missions in the first few months of 2019.
When NASA awarded the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contracts in September 2014, the agency expected at least one commercial crew vehicle to be certified to carry NASA astronauts before the end of 2017.
John Culberson advocated increasing NASA’s overall budget, including $21,500,000,000 for the agency in a fiscal year 2019 bill approved by the full committee in May.
Breakthrough Prize Foundation would perform most of the study work under the agreement while NASA would use reasonable efforts to provide scientific and technical consulting, including expertise in planetary protection.
The fiscal year 2019 spending bill approved by House appropriators in May offered more than $21,500,000,000 for NASA, which was more than $1,600,000,000 above the agency’s original proposal.
John Culberson advocated for a $21,500,000,000 NASA appropriation in a fiscal year 2019 bill approved by the full House Appropriations Committee in May.
Jeanette Epps returned to activities at Johnson Space Center after her removal, including getting recertified to fly the T-38 aircraft used by NASA for astronaut training.
NASA planned for the PPE to launch sometime in 2022, most likely from Cape Canaveral.
Astrobotic Technology Inc. received $250,000 in new contract awards through NASA’s SBIR and STTR programs for its Future Missions and Technology (FM&T) department.
NASA plans to invest up to $65,000,000 in smallsat technology demonstration missions that would fly alongside the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP).
NASA is on the brink of launching American astronauts on American rockets from American soil for the first time since 2011.
A 2018-07-11 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that NASA’s internal projections offered a zero percent chance that the companies would be certified for routine ISS missions in early 2019.
NASA identified a possible reduction to WFIRST of roughly one third of its budget in each of fiscal years 2020 and 2021 that could delay WFIRST launch by up to a few years.
The Committee report indicates small robotic lunar missions, starting in 2020, intend to provide NASA access to the lunar surface for the first time in nearly 50 years.