Casey Dreier • August 23, 2019 • 1
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.
Casey Dreier • February 20, 2019 • 6
SpaceX says it wants to save NASA money, but its actions could cost taxpayers more in the end.
Casey Dreier • February 15, 2019 • 10
After months of unrelated political turmoil, multiple stop-gap spending bills, and an unprecedented government shutdown, NASA's 2019 budget was finally signed into law.
