Kenneth Chang

Here are a few tweets to explain why I'm really concerned about the Moon 2024 program. As one DC source told me, "The human spaceflight enterprise is about to go over the cliff."

Doesn't seem it goes off a cliff. By this time next year, the schedule is reset to 2028, and everyone forgets about everything, just like everyone forgets what NASA said last year about what it wanted to do in 2024. (Ditch ISS.)

maybe. or maybe potus 2021 says i like nasa. i like earth science. i don't like humans in deep space, where robots should be.

It doesn't go off a cliff now. But if there's a new president in 2021, yes, I would expect another course swerve for NASA.

It is over the cliff. Demanding the sacrifice of Pell Grants to fund the stupidly-designed (see Mike Griffin) inadequately-justified vendor-driven lunar program is the kiss of death. It could destroy bipartisan support for NASA for a generation.

Bob, run a scenario in which we do a one-way trip, with resuppliable hab. Seems like that could beat the 2024 deadline, and we could figure out how to get them back later. It would give us useful data on long-term partial gravity, and we'd call it, "This time to stay."