“Bridenstine stressed that with this increase, “we got out of the gate” and we are “just at the beginning” of realizing a manned lunar landing. And that this $1.6 billion requested increase is a “down payment” on a program that will require five years of support. This is the first time that a President announced a Moon-Mars plan, and actually requested the money to do it, Bridenstine said, in referring in contrast to both Bush Presidents.”
A Note To Readers
We are going to the Moon, again. This time to stay. With $1.6 billion added to the NASA budget this week, the project for a man and woman landing on the Moon in 2024 is underway.
As the Apollo Project demonstrated fifty years ago, it is the space program that drives scientific and technological progress and lifts the entire economy to a new platform of productivity. Applying the same idea to a crash program to develop fusion and uplifting the nation’s infrastructure with great projects like the North American Water and Power Alliance, that is what will make America Great Again. Not slogans and not stupid neo-con adventures attempting to turn the U.S. into an imperial empire under British direction.
Our Feature this week updates the Moon Project developments.
The Rest of the Report
It is not suppose to rain (and snow) in California in May. But it is doing just that with more to come. And it is not just California had a great year for snow. So too did the Colorado Basin.
Next is our Oroville Dam Update, with an operations report from the Department of Water Resources, followed by a couple of items on hysterics generated by ignorance, and what I would characterize as cynicism, claiming that the dam is about to collapse or the new spillway will fall apart.
Then a short section of what passes for water management these days.
The conflict between the Bureau of Reclamation and the State of California over raising Shasta Dam 18 feet is now in the courts. And that may be scaring off the Westlands Water District from its participation.
PG&E is in the news again. This time with reports that the state has officially declared that it was PG&E equipment that is responsible for the Camp Fire last year that killed more than 80 people and destroyed the town of Paradise. PG&E also announced that it will turn off the electricity in areas of the state during high fire danger periods. We could see blackouts that last for days or weeks. Finally, insurance companies paid out $12 billion in 2018 for fire damage claims.
Under the title of Infrastructure there is a short item on the nation’s water infrastructure requirements, which total in the trillions. That is followed by two items on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. Finally, the Trump administration just finished off California’s High-speed Rail Project, clawing back almost $1 billion in federal funds.
We conclude this week’s report with the above mentioned new Manned Moon Landing project.
