{"id":677921,"date":"2026-03-24T08:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/677921\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:37:13","slug":"big-nasa-news-thing-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/677921\/","title":{"rendered":"Big NASA News Thing On Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HEGmO3MXQAAEEoO.jpg\" alt=\"Big NASA News Thing On Tuesday\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith\u2019s note:<\/strong> according to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-to-provide-update-on-implementation-of-national-space-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>press release<\/strong><\/a>: \u201cNASA will host a public event at 9 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 24, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington to outline how the agency is executing President Donald J. Trump\u2019s National Space Policy and accelerating preparations for America\u2019s return to the surface of the Moon by 2028. The program will open with remarks from NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, followed by a series of high-level panels providing updates on mission priorities, including sending the first astronauts to the lunar surface in more than 50 years, establishing the initial elements of a permanent lunar base, getting America underway in space on nuclear propulsion, and other objectives.\u201d  With a line-up like this and follow-on presser something will be announced. Science missions are still in limbo, workforce issues continue, but we\u2019ll be seeing monthly lunar landings starting in 2027, and what to do about Gateway? Oh yes: How is NASA going to win the \u201csecond space race\u201d and \u201cmake NASA great in space again\u201d? etc. Ad Astra y\u2019all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith\u2019s note: according to this press release: \u201cNASA will host a public event at 9 a.m. EDT on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":677922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[3295,26557,916,159,40107,2579,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-677921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-artemis","tag-jared-isaacman","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-space-science","tag-trumpspace","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116283247795310777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}