The budget funds “the SLS and Orion crew capsule to support a first uncrewed test launch in the early 2020s” [which sounds like a slip from 2020…]
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The FY20 budget proposal is out. Some notes to follow. http://bit.ly/2J8d06s
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It defers work on the Block 1B version of the SLS (which uses the Exploration Upper Stage), and instead desires an “annual cadence” of Block 1 SLS missions. Gateway components will be launched “on competitively procured vehicles.”
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The budget “supports a major new initiative to support competitive commercial development of a large lander that would first carry cargo, and then crew, to the lunar surface.”
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The budget proposes “a new Communications Services Program that would begin to purchase commercial communications services to return data generated by science missions back to Earth.”
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The budget offers $600M for Europa Clipper, but would launch it on a commercial vehicle and not SLS (something proposed in the FY19 request but rejected by Congress.) Also starts funding of Mars sample return.
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Buried at the bottom: the budget provides no funding for the WFIRST space telescope, the Office of STEM Engagement, and two (unnamed) Earth science missions. Such cuts have been proposed in the past but rejected by Congress.
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The budget would overall provide $21B for NASA in 2020, which is $500M less than what Congress appropriated for FY19.
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