NASA Officially Admits It Has Not Figured Out #JourneyToMars Cost

NASA Advisory Council Human Exploration and Operations Committee Meeting

"In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces a meeting of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Committee of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC). This Committee reports to the NAC. Monday, November 14, 2016, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Local Time."

Keith's note: After 7 years of all the #JourneyToMars happy talk someone at NASA finally admits the obvious - and they do so with perfect timing: just when a lot of people who want to go back to the Moon instead are looking for reasons to change NASA's goals.

Q-has anyone done even back of envlp calc on how much it will cost to get to Mars, w/intl? Williams:not all the way to Mars, just cislunar. — Marcia Smith (@SpcPlcyOnline) November 14, 2016

NASA says it's on a #JourneyToMars, but Greg Williams admitted just now that "they haven't costed it out all the way to Mars." — Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) November 14, 2016

Gee it took @NASA 7 years to admit this about the #JourneyToMars @SciGuySpace ! ? https://t.co/6hgXyvdjZ2 — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 14, 2016

Well @SciGuySpace lets see if WIlliams mentions that the cis-lunar thing only works if Sam Scimemi completely privatizes ISS #JourneyToMars https://t.co/BTOZMuDk4s — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 14, 2016

Listening to the collective state of denial at NAC HEO cmte telecon - this is the budget chart @NASA should be using #JourneyToMars http://pic.twitter.com/ZDaKWvBIAS

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 14, 2016

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