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Current, future missions
and worldwide events. For example, there was a major push to build Space Station Freedom in the 1980s, but when the Cold War ended, the Russians, the Americans and other international partners came together to build the International Space Station.
In the 2010s, the major shift was the retirement of the Space Shuttle and the development of a new manned heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch Sys- tem. Missions for the new system have varied but overall, they were similar as it primarily involved the desire to send a human into the space. The Space Exploration Initiative of the 1980s opened newer avenues of galaxy exploration.
In the coming decades, the focus is gradually shifting towards exploration of planet Mars; how- ever, some differences exist over the technologies to develop and focus on for the exploration. One of the options considered was the Asteroid Re- direct Mission. ARM had largely been defunded in 2017, but the key technologies developed for ARM would be utilized for future exploration, especially on a solar electric propulsion system.
Longer project execution timelines means it’s up to the future officials to execute on a directive, which often leads to directional mismanagement. For example, a shuttle replacement has numerous components involved, each making some head- way before being called off for various reasons including the National Aerospace Plane, Venture Star, Orbital Space Plane, Ares I, and others. The asteroid mission was not a major directive in the 2010s. Instead, the general support rested with the long term goal of getting humans to Mars. The space shuttle was retired and much of the existing road map was shelved including the then planned Lunar Return and Ares I human launch vehicle.
NASA’s ongoing investigations include in- depth surveys of Mars (Mars 2020 and InSight) and Saturn and studies of the Earth and the Sun. Other active spacecraft missions are Juno for Jupiter, New Horizons (for Jupiter, Pluto, and beyond), and Dawn for the asteroid belt. NASA continued to support in situ exploration beyond the asteroid belt, including Pioneer and Voyager traverses into the unexplored trans-Pluto region, and Gas Giant orbiters Galileo (1989–2003), Cas- sini(1997–2017), and Juno (2011–).
In the early 2000s, NASA was put on course for the Moon, however in 2010 this program was can- celled. As part of that plan the shuttle was going to be replaced, however, although it was retired its replacement was also cancelled, leaving the U.S. with no human spaceflight launcher for the first time in over three decades.
The New Horizons mission to Pluto was launched in 2006 and successfully performed a flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The probe received a gravity assist from Jupiter in February 2007, ex- amining some of Jupiter’s inner moons and testing on-board instruments during the flyby.
On Dec. 4, 2006, NASA announced it was planning a permanent Moon base. The goal was to start building the Moon base by 2020, and by 2024, have a fully functional base that would al- low for crew rotations and in-situ resource utiliza- tion. However, in 2009, the Augustine Commit- tee found the program to be on an “unsustainable trajectory.” In 2010, President Barack Obama halted existing plans, including the Moon base, and directed a generic focus on manned missions to asteroids and Mars, as well as extending sup- port for the International Space Station.
Since 2011, NASA’s strategic goals have been:
• Extend and sustain human activities across the solar system
• Expand scientific understanding of the Earth and the universe
• Create innovative new space technologies
• Advance aeronautics research
• Enable program and institutional capabilities
to conduct NASA’s aeronautics and space activi- ties
• Share NASA with the public, educators, and students to provide opportunities to participate
In September 2011, NASA announced the start of the Space Launch System program to devel- op a human-rated heavy lift vehicle. The Space Launch System is intended to launch the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and other elements towards the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, and one day Mars. The Orion MPCV conducted an un- manned test launch on a Delta IV Heavy rocket in December 2014.
The James Webb Space Telescope is currently scheduled to launch in May 2020.
On Aug.6, 2012, NASA landed the rover Cu- riosity on Mars. On Aug. 27, 2012, Curiosity transmitted the first pre-recorded message from the surface of Mars back to Earth, made by Ad- ministrator Charlie Bolden.
Directives
Some of the major NASA directives were to land people on the Moon, build the space shuttle, and build a large space station.
Typically, the major directives had the interven- tion of the science advisory, funding, political and public interest synergized into various waves of effort often heavily swayed by technical, funding,
Presents
Previously, in the early 2000s, there was a plan called the Constellation Program but this was defunded in the early 2010s. In the 1990s, there was a plan called “Faster, Better, Cheaper” In the 1980s, there was a directive to build a manned space station.
NASA Authorization Act of 2017
The NASA Authorization Act of 2017, which included $19.5 billion in funding for that fiscal year, directed NASA to get humans near or on the surface of Mars by the early 2030s.
Space Policy Directive 1
In December 2017, on the 45th anniversary of the last manned mission to the Lunar surface, President Donald Trump approved a directive that includes a lunar mission on the pathway to Mars and beyond.
“We’ll learn. The directive I’m signing today will refocus America’s space program on human exploration and discovery. It marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the Moon for the first time since 1972 for long-term explora- tion and use. This time, we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint, we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars. And perhaps, someday, to many worlds beyond.”
President Donald J. Trump
New NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine ad- dressed this directive in an August 2018 speech where he focused on the sustainability aspects — going to the Moon to stay — that are explicit in the directive, including taking advantage of U.S. commercial space capability that did not ex- ist even five years ago, which have driven down costs and increased access to space.
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