Casey Dreier • September 26, 2019 • 3
NASA used to spend more on travel for its employees at headquarters than it did on finding dangerous near-Earth asteroids. Now it’s building asteroid-hunting space telescopes. What changed?
Casey Dreier • September 18, 2019
Join The Planetary Society and advocate for space in Washington, D.C. this 9 - 10 February 2020.
Casey Dreier • August 23, 2019 • 7
Though prize incentives can be useful for certain problems, huge cash payouts for human spaceflight are not good policy.
Casey Dreier • August 07, 2019 • 7
A bigger budgetary pie allows the space agency's budget to grow—for one year at least.
Casey Dreier • June 16, 2019 • 3
How much did Project Apollo cost? Planetary Society experts answered that question by revisiting primary sources and reconstructing Apollo's entire cost history from 1960 - 1973.
Casey Dreier • May 13, 2019 • 5
The White House released a long-awaited supplemental budget request for NASA today. It proposes an additional $1.6 billion for an accelerated human spaceflight effort to land on the Moon in 2024. This boosts the President's budget request for NASA to $22.6 billion in fiscal year 2020, which is approximately $1.1 billion or 5% more than the amount provided by Congress last year.
Casey Dreier • April 26, 2019 • 8
Thirty years ago, President George H.W. Bush announced an ambitious program to return humans to the Moon. It failed. Today the Trump Administration wants the same thing. Can a failed lunar return effort help this one succeed?
Casey Dreier • April 04, 2019 • 10
Can NASA really return astronauts to the Moon by 2024?
Casey Dreier • March 11, 2019 • 5
The President's Budget Request for NASA in 2020 would start a Mars Sample Return mission and ramp up efforts to send humans to the Moon. But it would still kick off the first year of a new decade with a half-billion dollar cut to the space agency.
Casey Dreier • March 05, 2019 • 3
Society members from across the United States came to Washington, D.C. on their own dime to advocate for space science and exploration.
