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In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees (arstechnica.com)
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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

The problem is that so many other companies also get their money from NASA. Cutting out NASA makes it a clear pipe from gov to spaceX.

Of course, so many other projects NASA is running will also just die, but those don't even help Elon anyway so they're pointless. Or so.