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Can America return to the moon by 2024?

At the most recent meeting of the National Space Council, held at NASA’s Marshal Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Vice President Mike Pence ordered NASA to get American moon boots on the lunar surface by 2024, by any means necessary. The challenge, and NASA’s response, has created a curious situation fraught with both technical and political peril.

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Natalie Portman as a female astronaut who, having returned from a long-duration space mission, loses her mind, has an unwise affair with a fellow NASA astronaut, played by Jon Hamm, and destroys her family. The movie is loosely based on the story of Lisa Nowak. Both facts concerning the movie make it problematic.

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Boeing should be challenged to fully take over the Space Launch System project — which it has been paid billions to manage in a traditional cost-plus process. Boeing should be liberated from NASA’s traditional pattern of management, over-planning, and underperforming. If Boeing could liberate its designers and engineers to be mission-oriented rather than process-dominated, the SLS could leap forward, and its price would drop.

At the same time, companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin should be invited into the competition. The central goal would be getting Americans back to the Moon and keeping them there. Companies that meet the goals ahead of schedule should get a bonus. The first company to meet the project goals should get an even bigger bonus.

Furthermore, companies that come in under budget should be allowed to keep 20 percent of the savings. And there should be an opportunity for fully funded new entrants to come and compete.

Importantly, participants should be paid only for achievement – not for planning or process. One suggestion I have heard from industry was for companies to be paid a price per kilo of delivery on the surface of the Moon.

Why NASA announced and then canceled an all-woman spacewalk

When NASA announced that astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch would conduct a spacewalk on the International Space Station, the event was invested with a great deal of symbolism. The NASA astronaut corps did not include women, back when “manned spaceflight” was an accurate description and not, as it is now, evidence of archaic, obsolete rhetoric. Women have commanded space shuttle missions, have commanded the ISS, and have done pretty much everything that their male counterparts do currently while in space.

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The title story of The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories was written in 2009 and is therefore somewhat dated, since it came out a year before President Obama trashed the Constellation program in his high-handed fashion. For a long time, even after President Trump revived the return to the moon goal, it looked like the main story line of the last surviving Apollo moon walker mentoring the next crew to go back to the moon would be alternate history. But now that Vice President Pence has thrown down the gauntlet and has challenged NASA to get moon boots on the lunar soil by 2024, it is entirely possible that at least one of the old Apollo guys will still be around to send them off. Also, thanks to Jim Bridenstine, another prediction from the novel, that the next moon walker will be a woman, will be fulfilled.

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PENCE CALLS FOR AMERICAN BOOTS ON THE MOON BY 2024

Vice President Mike Pence threw down the gauntlet at a meeting of the National Space Council. NASA will return astronauts to the moon in the next five years “by any means necessary.” The announcement represents a massive course correction from the slow, “sustainable” course the space agency has been on to something more like the race to the moon of the 1960s. Indeed, Pence noted that the United States and her allies are in a race with China, a country that seeks to use the moon to achieve world domination. The announcement is a culmination of a number of policy changes the Trump administration has executed.

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