NASA’s planned rocket to send humans back to the moon and the agency’s solar system exploration program were big winners in a $20.7 billion budget passed by Congress and signed by President Trump on Friday.
The NASA funding was part of a $1.3 trillion federal spending package that keeps the government running through the end of fiscal year 2018 — Sept. 30 — after multiple stopgap budgets in recent months.
Lawmakers gave NASA nearly $1.1 billion more than the space agency received in fiscal year 2017, and $1.6 billion more than the Trump administration’s 2018 budget request.
NASA’s behind-schedule Space Launch System, a multibillion-dollar rocket that has been a cornerstone of the agency’s human spaceflight program since 2011, will receive $2.15 billion in the fiscal 2018 budget. The Orion crew capsule, which will launch on top of the SLS, will get $1.35 billion.
The budget provides $350 million for construction of a second SLS mobile launch platform, a project NASA says could shorten the gap between the first and second Space Launch System flights.
Dumb faggot, end your miserable existence. I bet the earth is flat too, right?
Ian King
CGI? You mean the powerpoint department.
Landon Mitchell
Powerpoint? You mean NASTRAN.
Christopher Nguyen
good news!
Brayden White
first good thing this faggot's done since getting in office. funding the sciences is a good move and space exploration's our only goddamn hope when this rock's drained dry of resources in the next century
Kevin Ward
NASTRAN? You mean thousands of watercolor artists!
>SpaceX Falcon Heavy >Payload to LEO 63,800 kg (140,700 lb)
>SLS >Payload to LEO 70,000 to 130,000 kg (150,000 to 290,000 lb)
To everyone riding Elon Musk's dick, consider that the Falcon Heavy barely qualifies as being heavy-lift, while NASA's rocket is designed to put very large payloads in orbit, which will cut down on costs because clients won't need to make their satellites foldable to fit inside a small fairing or to use super-expensive super-light materials in their construction (the main reason why the James Webb Space Telescope is so over-budget right now).
If it's built for a government agency, that will not be the case.
Parker Reed
>outdated tech In spaceflight circles, they call that "tried and tested"
Isaiah Lee
Hopefully we can get off this rock before the Muslims take over. Their religion thinks the world is flat and the center of the Universe. The only Muslim astronaut is from "secular" Indonesia which is turning extremely theocratic. Even if liberals want Muslims to come with us, Muslims wouldn't want to because they couldn't pray towards their magic rock.
Trump can Omni-bust space cucks money and use the money to build a mote in front of the wall >liberals btfo
Ethan Campbell
then they have funds to start looking for replacements instead of funneling more cash towards the jews in the private sector doing worthless showboating like sending cars to space while pocketing whatever they can.
The first nation to perfect space travel will own the world. Think about it, every nation to perfect the next way of travel became a super power. Horses, the wheel, the Roman roads, and the British navy are all examples of revolutionized travel that allowed for dominance. Even today the US dominates the rest of the world by it's use of air power (aircraft carriers, missiles, and a vast air force). The nation to expand into space first and hold on will ultimately be the next great power.
Jose Morris
no, this is bullshit, those things can get shutdown relatively easy
the first nation to perfect icmb and supersonic missile shutdown will have an oportunity to conquer the globe the first nation to get warp drive will have an oportunity to conquer the globe
those are facts, you missed your chance when you didnt nuked the ussr like patton wanted
but if status quo its whats lays ahead, china has a chance to economically conquer and eventually conquer conquer, the world
