Additional Comments by the NASA Nominee

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According to a story in Chron, a few years back the current nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, made the following statement:

I truly want us to live in a world 50 or 100 years from now where people are jumping in their rockets like the Jetsons and there are families bouncing around on the moon with their kid in a spacesuit.

Given the difficulty was are having getting back to the moon 50 years after we dropped such travel, his time frame and expectations may be a little ambitious. I would be happy to have a few astronauts on the surface and the beginning of some type of rudimentary lunar station within 10 years, but something like The Jetsons in the near future or even 50 years out does not seem to be likely.

We heard stories about The Jetsons and flying cars long ago. Though some of the ideas in the television series were workable, if we cannot get to everyday flying cars just yet, I think everyday rockets to the Moon with the whole family are even further away.

Somehow he watched The Jetsons in his youth but seemed to miss Space: 1999 and even the original Lost in Space.

I expect his discussions with NASA will be pretty eye-opening and may temper his expectations.

We need to nail down the basics again before we issue travel posters to the Moon.