Frank Slazer

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Frank Slazer

@FSlazer

Space exploration advocate 🚀 🛰️🌞🪐🌎🌓 & proud @SyracuseU alum 🍊 & @DLBA resident who knows that life's too short for bad weather! 😎 he/him 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦🇺🇸

Long Beach, CA Katılım Mayıs 2012
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IAF@iafastro·
Julie Payette, Astronaut and President @ASE_Astronauts “We live on this planet, this is our only one… Global issues that we face whether it is climate change or conflicts, can only be solved together and we need to not dwell on what separate us but to find a common ground”
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Punchbowl News@PunchbowlNews·
Trump on Wednesday named top tech executives to a council the White House said would provide “recommendations on strengthening American leadership in science and technology.” @BenBrodyDC has the details: punchbowl.news/article/tech/t…
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IAF@iafastro·
Guy Shone, Editor in Chief @Anewz_tv, moderated the panel ASTRONAUTS - GLOBAL AMBASSADORS OF SPACE AND PEACE and mentions that it is a huge privilege “less than 500 people in the whole of history have seen Earth from space” #IAFSM2026
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IAF@iafastro·
IAF President Gabriella Arrigo welcoming the participants to the IAF Global Networking Forum at the IAF Spring Meetings 2026 🚀 #IAFSM2026
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Frank Slazer@FSlazer·
A great panel discussion at the @iafastro Global Networking Forum at the Spring Meetings in Paris.
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Frank Slazer@FSlazer·
@SpaceKoala None of this makes sense. You need the NASA Administrator to be the President’s; that’s how you get OMB to give NASA a good budget request. Unlike the FBI, where law enforcement is a recognized priority, NASA is a discretionary area; who’s in the WH has a lot of impact over it.
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Space Koala@SpaceKoala·
NASA Administrator as an elected position is a terrible idea. I would much prefer how the FBI director used to be handled: 10 year appointments, with a focus on serving the country over partisan politics.
Owen Sparks@OwenSparks

Hear me out. What if we made NASA Administrator an elected position, by the people, similar to that of a Governor / Congressman? Separate the appointment from the executive branch. The entire country votes for this person every 6 years. We need a continued focus to build bases on the Moon and Mars. The potential for leadership to change every 4 years is disruptive. Additionally, as citizens begin living in orbit and other heavenly bodies they will need a person on Earth to represent their interests. I don't want Jared in the White House, I want him where he is now, executing at the highest levels and at the speed necessary to dominate this new space race. 🇺🇸

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Senator Ted Cruz@SenTedCruz·
Space is not just symbolic. It is strategic. A sustained lunar surface presence ensures America, not China, leads the next era of exploration. That is why my bipartisan NASA Authorization Act, which the @SenateCommerce Committee approved this month, includes provisions that will support @NASA in this effort to make an American moon base a reality. I look forward to continuing to work with NASA to maintain American superiority in space. @NASAMoonBase
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman@NASAAdmin

To build a sustained human presence on the Moon, we are building @NASAMoonBase, prioritizing surface operations and scalable infrastructure.  - Frequent robotic landings and mobility testing including MoonFall drones  - Starting in 2027 nearly monthly cadence of equipment and rovers with scientific payloads landing on the Moon.  - Investments in power, communications, and surface mobility  - Scalable infrastructure to support long-term human presence The objective is clear: build the foundation for an enduring lunar base and take the next step toward Mars.

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NASA Watch@NASAWatch·
? Reaction of international partners on changes to #Artemis - "I have had conversations with all my counterparts that contribute to #ISS and #Artemis. Everyone is excited to support ops on lunar surface instead of looking down from space. We're going to savage a lot from Gateway - comms, avionics, surface things - we were hardly at the point of no return - only two modules were being worked and they had significant issues. If we continued like this we'd looking down at our rival and watching and the fun they were having on the surface" -- @NASAAdmin
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Space Policy and Civilizational Future 🚀🛰️💫@AstroPolicy·
@FSlazer @CJHandmer All the Artemis partners were invited to the event yesterday—let’s see if they commit to the Lunar base. As most of them have zero capability to actually reach the Moon, I don’t see a way to both have a lunar science / space program and not be partnered with NASA somehow.
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Frank Slazer@FSlazer·
@NASAWatch @NASA Nobody knew there would be no commercial breakthroughs; at the end of the day, ISS taught us how to live and work in space and inspired millions. Not everything the government does needs to be profitable - government SHOULD advanced science even if there’s no clear market!
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NASA Watch@NASAWatch·
After 25+ years telling Congress & public that #ISS needed funding since it was where ground breaking research & medical cures would be developed #NASA now admits it has not happened. If they can't do this after 25 years why push commercial space stations to try - with @NASA funding? Makes no sense. @NASAAdmin needs to get someone with common sense to make these charts.
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Frank Slazer@FSlazer·
@brianweeden @Lori_Garver It all depends on how it’s framed. Beat the Soviets to the moon - done after 1969. Learn how to live & work in space (ISS); almost 30 years & still going strong,
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brianweeden@brianweeden·
@Lori_Garver That is absolutely important, but I don’t think sufficient. Even when we have delivered (Apollo) it was still hard to sustain political support
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brianweeden@brianweeden·
While tongue-in-cheek, this encapsulates the challenge with human spaceflight policy - how do we as a country sustain long-term goals across multiple administrations?
Edward@somefoundersalt

“We should build a moon base” “Actually, let’s not go back to the Moon. Mars or bust” “Wait no, let’s do an asteroid” “Actually, back to the Moon. Except we don’t land and build a space station” “Maybe we use the space station to stage landers?” “We should build a moon base”

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Frank Slazer@FSlazer·
@AstroPolicy @CJHandmer If the Gateway elements cannot be transitioned to support the new plan, good luck getting international partners to support US exploration projects. These are very big and important investments for these nations
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Space Policy and Civilizational Future 🚀🛰️💫@AstroPolicy·
@CJHandmer While the lunar base is exciting, the Gateway cancellation creates a shock event for the Gateway international partners, most of whom had already committed substantial funding and contracts to the project and in some cases had tied astronaut flights to contributions....
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STS-125@sts1251·
@FSlazer @Handre Also completely false comparison, he says SpaceX didn't take Government money for Falcon 9 but NASA paid a little under half ($396m to SpaceX $450m) according to Gwynne. Elon himself stated that COTS saved SpaceX, they couldn't have completed Falcon 9 without it.
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Handre@Handre·
The Space Shuttle program burned through $196 billion over 30 years—that's $1.5 billion per launch. NASA's bureaucrats promised reusability but delivered a Rube Goldberg machine that killed 14 astronauts and required armies of technicians to refurbish after each flight. Enter SpaceX. Musk took zero government development money for Falcon 9 and achieved actual reusability at $67 million per launch (often less). And he did it in half the time with a fraction of the resources. This is Austrian economics in action: market prices reveal real costs, profit-and-loss drives innovation, and entrepreneurs allocate resources efficiently. Government programs optimize for political theater, not results. The contrast couldn't be more damning.
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Frank Slazer@FSlazer·
@CJHandmer Well, it’s probably Canadian $ so just $750M 🤷🏼‍♂️
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Frank Slazer@FSlazer·
@AstroPolicy Also, to assure long term support, NASA needs to balanced program including Science. We don’t want this just to be tied to a party that will likely lose the Congress in the midterms
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Space Policy and Civilizational Future 🚀🛰️💫@AstroPolicy·
I want to believe - but this ambitious plan requires $2-3B per year. It's not immediately clear how the $3B in 2026-2029 can be achieved with the existing NASA budget via reallocation of Gateway funding (~$1,1B/yr), however, this precludes and ramp down funding / contract cancellation fees. This implies that other funding will be reallocated from SLS / Exploration Ground Systems lines (perhaps with EUS cancellation and the mobile tower 2?) I'm very curious to see what the NASA FY27 budget request, due in a few weeks' time, will look like. Will we see a dramatic cut like the previous year and mass cancellation of science programs?
Space Policy and Civilizational Future 🚀🛰️💫@AstroPolicy

@NASAAdmin @JAXA_en The whole Lunar Base Surface Architecture in one slide. 🚀🌖 $30B investment in total. Many opportunities for commercial lunar companies. International partners opportunities were not well identified.

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Frank Slazer@FSlazer·
@AstroPolicy Recall the “Big Beautiful Bill” gave Artemis an extra $2B / yr over 5 years. Now we just need to be sure OMB doesn’t try to cut that from the President’s request.
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Frank Slazer@FSlazer·
@xdNiBoR Truth be told the one guy who may make this possible is @SenTedCruz ; he got an extra $10B for @NASAArtemis in the “big beautiful bill”. That and his work to give @NASAAdmin the flexibility to make the changes possible is why these changes are possible. No bucks, no Buck Rogers!
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Frank Slazer@FSlazer·
I sincerely hope that every effort will be made to fit our international Gateway partners into the lunar surface architecture. But, overall, his bold effort to reenergize @nasa is encouraging and overdue. Let’s hope he is supported by Congress and, most importantly, OMB.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman@NASAAdmin

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