NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is leveraging his nearly four decades in Congress to lobby hard for additional funding to plug a major hole in the Artemis program
POLITICO Space will publish next Thursday, June 17, instead of Friday, June 18, and then return to its normal weekly publishing schedule. to return astronauts to the moon and also give aging facilities a facelift.this week. “I've suggested to them that a way to do it is in the jobs bill. There's an R&D section of the jobs bill. I am very optimistic because of the support that I've heard directly from senators and congressmen.”NASA centers that he says are falling apart.
“A couple of years ago, as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I was briefed on what those Navy pilots saw and I have talked to the Navy pilots,” Nelson recalled. “They are quite convinced. And these are realistic folks. This isn't some UFO tin-foil hat kind. These are pilots who locked their radar on it. They tracked and then they saw it move so fast that they couldn't believe it. And then they went and tracked it again, locked their radar on it in a new position.
He said he’s put Thomas Zurbuchen, who runs NASA's science directorate, in charge of looking into the reports. “I have had several conversations with him, most recently 10 minutes ago, about this very topic and about what he has been doing on SETI and now what he is further doing in an inquiry to see if we have any scientific explanation for some of this,” Nelson said.“NASA is a natural place,” said Nelson, who served in the House and Senate from Florida.
but is now under protest by losing bidders Blue Origin and Dynetics. The funding was added by Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, where Jeff Bezos’ space company is headquartered.which includes the NASA authorization bill, is an investment in scientific research and technological innovation that will help ensure the U.S.
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