The question is whether the Trump administration could put someone at the head of NASA who acts this way.
Hypothetically speaking, yes it’s possible. But what is the probability of “Trump administration will put someone at the head of NASA who will direct it in ways described in the article, and during the following 4 or 8 years will achieve results comparable with the results NASA achieved back then?” More than 10%?
To me that looks like a quite narrow prediction. Till now I haven’t seen anything that suggest that space will be a priority for the Trump administration.
Given that both Bush and Obama had a token commitment of putting a man on Mars I don’t see that there’s much to gain for choosing this public goal.
I do think there more than 10% chance for a >10 billion science/technology project that organized more like how the Apollo project was organized then how projects are currently organized.
Hypothetically speaking, yes it’s possible. But what is the probability of “Trump administration will put someone at the head of NASA who will direct it in ways described in the article, and during the following 4 or 8 years will achieve results comparable with the results NASA achieved back then?” More than 10%?
To me that looks like a quite narrow prediction. Till now I haven’t seen anything that suggest that space will be a priority for the Trump administration.
Given that both Bush and Obama had a token commitment of putting a man on Mars I don’t see that there’s much to gain for choosing this public goal.
I do think there more than 10% chance for a >10 billion science/technology project that organized more like how the Apollo project was organized then how projects are currently organized.