posted 05-25-2016 02:25 PM               

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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
If that does not happen and Congress passes a continuing resolution instead, then the status quo is maintained.

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posted 11-29-2016 07:47 PM               

Contrary to the assertions made in the press release, numerous advisory bodies have questioned the merits of the President's ARM mission. The NASA Advisory Council, the Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG), and the National Research Council have all raised concerns with the mission since its proposal by the Administration.

posted 11-29-2016 07:57 PM               

...any connections between the science objectives for small bodies as identified in the planetary decadal survey report "Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022" and those stated as ARM objectives.

posted 03-16-2017 09:04 AM               

We remain committed to the next human missions to deep space, but we will not pursue the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) with this budget. This doesn't mean, however, that the hard work of the teams already working on ARM will be lost. We will continue the solar electric propulsion efforts benefiting from those developments for future in space transportation initiatives. I have had personal involvement with this team and their progress for the past few years, and am I extremely proud of their efforts to advance this mission.

...alternative approaches to the Asteroid Robotic Redirect Mission for demonstrating the technologies and capabilities needed for a human mission to Mars that would otherwise be demonstrated by the Asteroid Robotic Redirect Mission.

posted 03-17-2017 11:43 AM               

The Trump administration's budget blueprint would still prioritize deep-space human spaceflight, providing $3.7 billion for the Orion crew vehicle, the Space Launch System and associated ground systems. To offset the development costs of those programs, the administration recommends scrapping President Barack Obama's Asteroid Redirect Mission. More reductions in that area are possible. "NASA will investigate approaches for reducing the costs of exploration missions to enable a more expansive exploration program."

posted 06-14-2017 09:03 PM               

With administration plans to cancel it announced earlier this year, and a lack of congressional support, NASA is in an "orderly closeout" phase of its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) while keeping alive some of its key technologies for other applications.

In a presentation at a June 13 meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) here, Michele Gates, program director for ARM at NASA Headquarters, said the mission received its "notice of defunding" from agency leadership in April, weeks after a budget blueprint document for fiscal year 2018 released by the White House called for cancelling the mission.

"We are in an orderly closeout phase, capturing all the good work that has been done across the team, and transitioning activities as appropriate to other potential missions or archived for future use," she said.