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The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.

Jacob Richmond, a NASA spokesman, said the agency would review the library holdings over the next 60 days and some material would be stored in a government warehouse while the rest would be tossed away.

“This process is an established method that is used by federal agencies to properly dispose of federally owned property,” Mr. Richmond said.

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Just rename it to “Trump-NASA” and it will get funding.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Whew! Maybe now we'll have the money for a ballroom/conference center and "Victory over the libs" arch. /s

[–] HisArmsOpen@crust.piefed.social 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Do US citizens not have a sense of the damage and loss of knowledge and recall the German Nazi's burning of books? I think I know the answer and it is too maddening.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

Only Elites care about boring old stuff that already happened? All that matters is what lies ahead, and there is no way of predicting that from past history.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

It was the first thing that came to my mind when I heard about this news.