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The Trump administration is illegally gutting NASA’s largest research library. (lithub.com)
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“I cannot overstate how much knowledge is housed in this library about literally our entire universe,” she told me. “The most expansive understanding of human knowledge about space is being packed up.”

What many people don’t realize is the breathtaking extent of what constitutes ‘space knowledge.’ As planetary scientist Dave Williams told NPR back in January, the Goddard library houses “a database covering all the missions and everything that’s flown back all the way back to Sputnik.” Which institutional intel has proved crucial for designing modern missions.

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

Can- can Jared secretly ship the library across the pond to Jonathan McDowell? I feel like he'd take good care of it.

[–] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago

The 'dumbening' is in full swing. Fascist enforced - why burn books when you can gut nasa?

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago

National Day of Action: March 7 in DC, and Nationwide!

[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago

Add it to the list of illegal shit his administration has been doing.

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

He couldn't have it, so no one else gets it.