Congress just greenlit a NASA moon plan opposed by Musk and Isaacman

Legacy Aerospace Giants won a victory on Tuesday when the US Senate issued a draft reconciliation law in President Trump’s budget, which distinguishes other billions of NASA’s pioneering Artemis program.

The $ 10 billion addition to Artemis Architecture, which includes funding for the additional space launch system and a orbit around the moon called Gateway, is a reprimand for critics who want to see alternative techniques used instead. Among these critics, CEO of Spacex Elus MUSK and billionaire businessman Jared, who suggested Musk as an upcoming official at NASA.

There is no sign that the tense relationships between Musk and Trump recovered. If Trump signs the bill, the repercussions, which started after the sudden president of ISAACMAN, will continue to continue – if it is not escalating.

Musk in particular is the SLS missile on the basis that it is fully consumed. Unlike the Rockets family in Spacex, which are all designed to be reusable, SLS is used only once. MUSK said in 2020, which means “a billion dollars missile was bombed” every time it was launched. This may even be low. The most modern figures from the NASA monitoring agency have placed frequent production costs to $ 2.5 billion each.

A total of about $ 24 billion has been poured into SLS production so far, the money that went primarily to a consortium from the primary numbers of space, including Boeing and L3Harris’ Aerojet RocketDyne, and Northrop Grumman, leads to the construction of major missile components.

During his recent confirmation sessions with the Senate, Asman asked about the huge amounts. He emphasized the use of SLS in the following ARTEMIS tasks, but he said in the end that he did not think that the missile was “the long -range method to reach the moon and to Mars at a large frequency.”

congress – Trump, decided, if he decides to sign the law in the law – to move forward. About $ 4.1 billion of $ 10 billion will go to the document to the additional Rockkets SLS for the ARTEMIS 4 and 5 tasks. At the same time, about $ 2.6 billion will go to the completion of the gate station.

It is worth noting that NASA’s fiscal year’s request in May suggested “the gradual disposal of the space launch system and the Orion Spacecraft after the completion of the ARTEMIS III mission.” This new financing fly in the face of this proposal, which was presented to the MUSK and Trump’s public repercussions in June.

The new financing includes 700 million dollars for the new MARS wireless and wireless telecommunications administration, $ 1.25 billion to operate the additional international space station, and $ 325 million to SPACEX to develop a spacecraft to cancel the ISS character at the end of the decade. (The total prize for that DE-RITE spacecraft is $ 843 million.)