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.
Casey Dreier • January 26, 2019 • 2
If ever there was an example of how quickly political winds can shift, look no further than the sudden end to a seemingly endless government shutdown on January 25th.
Casey Dreier • January 18, 2019 • 15
The partial government shutdown that shuttered NASA continues with no end in sight. The U.S. space program sits idle, the vast majority of its workforce sent home. Space science and exploration projects are disrupted. Paychecks are absent. And an unsettling realization has dawned on hundreds of thousands of public employees and contractors affected by the shutdown: this time is different.
