Frank Slazer รีทวีตแล้ว
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 เข้าร่วม Mayıs 2012
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Frank Slazer รีทวีตแล้ว
George Lucas on the state of film and TV today:
"Nobody knows what to do. The stories they're telling are just old movies. Let's do a sequel. Let's do another version of this movie. And it's not just in movies, but in almost everything, there's no original thinking. It's like I saw something, let's do something like that."
Is he on to something here?
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Frank Slazer รีทวีตแล้ว
This is what happens when you hire someone with very little actual spaceflight and engineering experience to run the planet's largest space agency, because yeah paying a couple missions and going to space doesn't make you a good administrator
Andrew@Cosmic_Andrew1
The CLPS program has paid out around half a billion now(not including experiments) for one successful landing and has allocated 1.55 billion of the 2.5 billion cap through 2028. They have less than a billion to add 20+ new missions Math isn’t mathing
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Frank Slazer รีทวีตแล้ว
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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@PunchbowlNews @TheSiliconHill @BenBrodyDC Let me guess their recommendations- don’t gut NIH, NSF, NASA, etc!
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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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Frank Slazer รีทวีตแล้ว
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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Frank Slazer รีทวีตแล้ว
IAF President Gabriella Arrigo welcoming the participants to the IAF Global Networking Forum at the IAF Spring Meetings 2026 🚀 #IAFSM2026
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It was my pleasure to represent @astrosociety at a recognition of its commitment to diversity at the @iafastro Spring Meetings.
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A great panel discussion at the @iafastro Global Networking Forum at the Spring Meetings in Paris.
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@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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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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Frank Slazer รีทวีตแล้ว
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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Frank Slazer รีทวีตแล้ว
? 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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@AstroPolicy @CJHandmer Nothing says they can’t partner with China…
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@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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How do you spend a billion dollars on an arm? Without checking that the underlying project is technically sound?
Andrew@Cosmic_Andrew1
So what does Canada do with their 1 billion dollar Candarm 3 now? CSA could sell it to CLD provider but will take a massive loss, not a whole lot of demand out there for a highly specialized space arm.
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@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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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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@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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@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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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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@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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@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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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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Messaging tip: If you support a robust American space program, you should not argue that the space program should be funded at the expense of taking care of Americans at home. Guaranteed loser with Congress and the voters.
The American Tribune@TAmTrib
America gave up the stars to instead subsidize the favela, ending Apollo to fund the Great Society We must reverse that We must return to being the Aerospace Republic It is our destiny
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