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Artemis Goes All-In: $20B Moon Base, FRB Record & ISS Successor RFP
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NASA bets $20 billion on a permanent Moon base by 2028, scrapping Gateway entirely — while astronomers trace a fast radio burst 10 billion light-years back in time. Today's daily space briefing also covers the ISS commercial successor RFP and a California spaceport push.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
NASA has just committed twenty billion dollars to putting humans back on the Moon by twenty twenty-eight, and this time it's not a return visit. It's the foundation of a permanent base.
The honest question is whether twenty twenty-eight is realistic. Artemis has a long history of delays.
Now to something with a very different kind of weight. Astronomers have traced a fast radio burst to a source over ten billion light-years away, more than doubling the previous distance record.
Meanwhile, the commercial transition in low Earth orbit is now formally underway. NASA has released its final Request for Proposal for a private successor to the International Space Station.
One smaller story worth tracking. The city of Paso Robles in California has approved a seven hundred and eighty-six thousand dollar consulting contract to pursue an FAA horizontal launch site operator license.
The signal to follow across all of these stories is execution. NASA's twenty twenty-eight commitment, the commercial station competition, and the spaceport licensing wave are all ambitious on paper.
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