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posted by martyb on Sunday June 16 2019, @03:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-many-SpaceX-launches-would-that-buy? dept.

Bridenstine estimates Artemis cost at $20–30 billion

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a television interview June 13 that it will cost the agency an additional $20 billion to $30 billion to return humans to the moon, the first range of costs given by the agency for the program.

In an interview with CNN, Bridenstine said that estimate would be above earlier projections for costs of existing elements of what's now called the Artemis program, such as the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft.

"For the whole program, to get a sustainable presence on the moon, we're looking at between 20 and 30 billion dollars," he said. "When we talk about the 20 to 30 billion dollars, it would be 20 or 30 billion on top of the normal NASA budget but, of course, that would be spread over five years."

[...] The lack of cost estimates for Artemis had become a point of frustration for members of Congress. "For us in Congress to be able to grapple with these things, we need some idea of how much of a cost is expected to be incurred over the next five years," said Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) during a June 11 hearing by the House Science Committee's space subcommittee on NASA's science program where he sought, unsuccessfully, to get a cost estimate like the one Bridenstine provided in the interview.

Also at The Verge.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by RandomFactor on Sunday June 16 2019, @04:22PM (6 children)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 16 2019, @04:22PM (#856274) Journal

    Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) during a June 11 hearing by the House Science Committee's space subcommittee on NASA's science program [spacenews.com] where he sought, unsuccessfully, to get a cost estimate like the one Bridenstine provided in the interview.

    The earlier hearing before congress may not have been the place to say
     
    "they're not necessarily the final figures." or "it's practically impossible to settle on an accurate price tag." which were also part of the CNN interview.
     
    But yeah, bad optics there.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 16 2019, @04:27PM (5 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday June 16 2019, @04:27PM (#856276) Homepage

    The real question is, when the budget is approved and all those White men send another rocket into space, will Google portray it as being the work of Black women and hipster faggots rather than clean-cut conservative White men?

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday June 16 2019, @04:47PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday June 16 2019, @04:47PM (#856286)

      Watch it again: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/ [imdb.com]

      you know you want to.

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    • (Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Sunday June 16 2019, @04:59PM (1 child)

      by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 16 2019, @04:59PM (#856290) Journal

      So, you think NASA is populated primarily by conservatives?
       
      Hadn't really thought about it. There are factors I can see that would pull both directions.

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      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Sunday June 16 2019, @05:31PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday June 16 2019, @05:31PM (#856301)

        Mission Control Houston, is built on Lyndon B. Johnson's family ranch land.

        They hire from all over, and kids that went to tech school can come out a little liberalized, but once they're on campus there's not much to eat besides BBQ, and off campus there's not much politics you can talk without getting beat up besides conservative.

        Other big NASA centers like Huntsville, Cocoa Beach, Stennis in Mississippi as very much the same.

        JPL is an exception to the rule, can't swing congressional funding without California's support.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @07:20PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @07:20PM (#856319)

      There are no conservatives, men or women, at NASA, because conservatives don't use the metric system. And NASA does. Duh.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @10:13PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @10:13PM (#856364)

        because conservatives don't use the metric system.

        I don't know about that. Brad always struck me as a right-winger. Remember what happened to him [youtube.com]?