The yet-to-be-named administrator of NASA also will be on the panel, along with other senior government and industry leaders. Some of the most successful people in the world want to be on this board."Ĭhaired by Pence, the council will include the secretaries of State, Defense, Commerce, Homeland Security and Transportation, along with the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the director of the White House Science and Technology Policy office, the director of National Intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And the Vice President, myself, and a few others are going to pick some private people to be on the board. "And I will draw on it for advice and information and recommendations for action. "The National Space Council will be a central hub guiding space policy within the administration," Trump said. President Trump canceled the asteroid retrieval mission that was a centerpiece of the Obama administration's policy and NASA managers have been quietly studying plans for a base of some sort in lunar orbit that could serve as a jumping off point for eventual deep space missions. The Orion spacecraft developed for the Constellation program was retained and NASA eventually won approval to design the heavy lift SLS booster.īut the moon was taken off the table in favor of a more nebulous "flexible path" strategy that called for visiting an asteroid in the mid 2020s before eventual flights to the vicinity of Mars in the mid 2030s. The Obama administration concluded the resulting Constellation moon program was not affordable and ordered a major change of course.
national space policy evolved in the wake of the 2003 shuttle Columbia disaster and President George Bush's decision in 2004 to complete the International Space Station and retire the space shuttle by the end of the decade and develop new rockets and spacecraft to carry astronauts back to the moon by the early 2020s for long-duration stays. We will bring the best of America together once again to lead with Americans in space."Ĭurrent U.S. That includes government agencies, the military and "leaders from the realms of private industry and the academic world. The first crewed flight of the Orion/SLS system is targeted for the 2021 timeframe.
The Boeing and SpaceX ferry ships are expected to make their first piloted test flights next year while the first flight of the new SLS booster and an unpiloted Orion capsule is scheduled for 2019. Vice President Mike Pence addresses workers at the Kennedy Space Center Positioned directly behind the podium were a SpaceX Dragon capsule, a Boeing CST-100 spacecraft - both being commercially developed to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station - and NASA's Orion capsule, being built to carry astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit and on to the moon or Mars. "But I'm here to tell you, that as we still enter this new century, we will beat back any disadvantage that our lack of attention has placed, and American will once again lead in space for the benefit and security of all of our people and all of the world." "For nearly 25 years, our government's commitment seems to have not matched the spirit of the American people," he said.
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