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Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA (arstechnica.com)
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Although the budget would continue support for ongoing missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, it would kill the much-anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory seen as on par with those two world-class instruments that is already fully assembled and on budget for a launch in two years.

Other significant cuts include ending funding for Mars Sample Return as well as the DAVINCI mission to Venus. The budget cuts also appear intended to force the closure of Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland where the agency has 10,000 civil servants and contractors.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How long until NASA gets privatized and folded into Space-X? This has to be the plan right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

SpaceX can launch Falcon rockets very well, but they have little expertise to design and plan experiments, build and operate telescopes, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I'm honestly surprised it hasn't already happened.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I saw this one coming a while back. Nazi American Space Assholes incoming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, that was the original NASA team as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Not the original NASA science team. That was the engineers. This is a about NASA's science budget.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Among the proposals were: A two-thirds cut to astrophysics, down to $487 million; a greater than two-thirds cut to heliophysics, down to $455 million; a greater than 50 percent cut to Earth science, down to $1.033 billion; and a 30 percent cut to Planetary science, down to $1.929 billion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Absolute madness, especially when compared to the increase in military budget.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

who needs science when you make your own truth.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I sure wish Earth were flat. Then bulldoze the entire D.C. off the edge.