The budget proposal documents, however, provide no funding to the WFIRST telescope, two Earth science missions and the Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Engagement.
NASA BUDGET 2020 FULL
He also confirmed that the James Webb Space Telescope, delayed until a 2021 launch, would receive full funding. ( Once again, Bridenstine emphasized that NASA would follow National Academy of Sciences guidelines prioritizing studying climate change.) "And both require an all-of-the-above approach."īeyond the moon and Mars, Bridenstine highlighted funding for the Earth sciences directorate - studying interactions within the water cycle and focusing on predicting weather and air quality, as well as ecosystem change. "The moon is the proving ground Mars is the horizon goal," Bridenstine said. Both missions would fall under the $2.6 billion budget request for planetary science. The budget proposal, indeed, fully funds the Mars 2020 mission and a Mars sample-return mission that could launch as soon as 2026 to collect and return to Earth a sample cached by Mars 2020. The last part of his first space policy directive says to take these capabilities for an eventual mission to Mars." But it's about more than just those things.
Water-ice is air to breathe, it's water to drink, it is in fact propulsion, and it's available in hundreds of millions of tons on the surface of the moon. In other words, the hundreds of millions of tons of water-ice that we've already discovered. He added that the Gateway would allow NASA "to utilize the resources of the moon. "I can tell you, just this morning I got off the phone with all of our international partners on the ISS and others, and they are very excited about partnering with us on going to the moon." The graphic also includes an inflatable habitation module similar to Bigelow's BEAM module undergoing testing at the space station now. "This is not what it is right now, today, but this is aspirational," he said - there are no concrete commitments for these partners to contribute to the Gateway. Bridenstine showed a new "aspirational" visualization of the Gateway, including prospective additions from the Japanese space agency, JAXA, as well as the European Space Agency and the Russian agency, Roscosmos.
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