Donald Trump Added Six More Members On The NASA's Landing Team, To Give Viewpoints On Some Of The Controversial Topics

The NASA landing team had an additional six people from the transition team of the President-elect Donald Trump. They will be giving viewpoints on important topics such as the development of heavy-lift launch vehicles and commercial space flight.

One of the new lading team members is Steve Cook. He was in charge with the Ares 1 and Ares 5 rocket program at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. However, the Ares program was canceled under the President Barack Obama regime. He left the agency in 2009 to work as the corporate vice president in Huntsville-based Dynetics.

To offer a different aspect on the issues, Greg Autry is in. He is an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California. He is a supporter of commercial space flights. He mentioned that "We will discontinue spending on Space Launch System (SLS), a giant government rocket, lacking both innovation and a mission. While SLS has consumed the largest single piece of NASA's budget for years, private sector operators like SpaceX and Blue Origin have leapfrogged it with more efficient, reusable boosters," according to Space News.

Also a professor at the University of Colorado and a senior vice president of the American Astronomical Society, the third landing member is Jack Burns. He is an advocate for lunar exploration and serves as a director of the University Network for Astrophysics Research (LUNAR). He has also served as the chair of the NASA Advisory Council's science committee in the years 2009-2010.

Among them is Rodney Liesveld. He is a former senior policy adviser at NASA.

A former NASA astronaut who completed three missions that include a 4.5-month stay on the International Space Station, Sandy Magnus, is also in. She has been a director if the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics since 2012

Also, a former research fellow at the U.S. House of Representatives Jeff Waksman is part of the new landing team member.

In a report by News 18, Chris Shank will lead the NASA landing team. He has worked for NASA from 2005 to 2009. It is during the tenure of administrator Mike Griffin.