NASA's inscrutable ways: discard to replace?

Why has NASA's Lunar Resource Prospector fallen from grace?
Loren Grush, writing for The Verge, is trying to find an answer.

Link to: "NASA scraps a lunar surface mission — just as it’s supposed to focus on a Moon return"

Rick Tumlinson now "chairman emeritus" of DSI

Although Rick Tumlinson, co-founder of Deep Space Industries, is moving on,

this does not mean he is turning his back on the space resources company

that he helped to found in 2012.

Link to: "Stepping Away - Stepping Up"

Easter 2018: Tiangong-1 (Heavenly Palace-1)

"Like the phoenix that rises from its ashes"

Link to: "Backgrounder:Tiangong-1, pioneer of China' s space station"

Link to: "Tianhe-1, the core module of China’s space station unveiled"




Link to: "ESA reentry expertise"