Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/trump-white-house-budget-proposal-eviscerates-science-funding-at-nasa/
Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/trump-white-house-budget-proposal-eviscerates-science-funding-at-nasa/
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“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.”
Literally everything the US has been known for that has been a positive impact in the world has been gutted in the last 9 weeks.
Now’s it’s NASA’s turn. So much winning 🙄
No tariffs for Russia though!
You get used to media using hyperbolic language, but damn… in this case “eviscerates” was used correctly.
Why is the WH making the budget proposal? Shouldnt that be the agency submitting it to Congress Appropriations committee? WH would for sure have influence on the policy (through whatever puppet they put there) but it is still the agency, no?
Time to find oil on asteroids to up that funding again.
That’s so Musk can get all the money for Space Ex contracts.
NASA is being privatized .
“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…”
No mention of cuts to SLS in the article
All of these cuts to things that impact our education, innovation, and quality of life. All because they refuse to tax billionaires, who have more money than they can spend. We will always be the punished class.
What are the odds the Nancy Grace telescope actually launches anywhere near the two year estimation.
USA is going right down the toilet with a pathological liar and convinced fraud in charge . Soon the penguins will have better space program
How’d that fucking Trump endorsement work out for your space interest and NASA funding there Buzz?
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4962245-buzz-aldrin-endorses-trump-reelection/
He was the “serious and proven leader” to fix problems and keep space in mind right Buzz?
That’s funny. At Jared Isaacman’s confirmation hearing they talked about how great science is, and even mentioned the importance of Earth Science. I guess Jared didn’t get the memo from his prospective boss.
Yeah everyone has been saying out loud for at least 6 months prior to the election and Kamala lost the popular vote so that is just where we are
By what objective metric is MAGA actually doing what its acronym claims as its goal? The academic brain drain will be felt for generations.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
| |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
|[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1jwpoj8/stub/mmkbhza “Last usage”)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
|[JPL](/r/Space/comments/1jwpoj8/stub/mmki5z2 “Last usage”)|Jet Propulsion Lab, California|
|[JSC](/r/Space/comments/1jwpoj8/stub/mmki5z2 “Last usage”)|Johnson Space Center, Houston|
|[JWST](/r/Space/comments/1jwpoj8/stub/mmkijh0 “Last usage”)|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope|
|[KSC](/r/Space/comments/1jwpoj8/stub/mmki5z2 “Last usage”)|Kennedy Space Center, Florida|
|[MSFC](/r/Space/comments/1jwpoj8/stub/mmki5z2 “Last usage”)|Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1jwpoj8/stub/mmki5z2 “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[SMD](/r/Space/comments/1jwpoj8/stub/mmka993 “Last usage”)|Science Mission Directorate, NASA|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1jwpoj8/stub/mmkbhza “Last usage”)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|
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How do they expect to get to Mars by doing that?
And there goes my career on the line of being potentially purged… Great, have a great weekend self
They want private money and companies to control science and space exploration. That makes it easy to monetize, manipulate and control
My opinion: this is terrible news for science.
Summary: Of course SLS isn’t cut… gotta keep the Southern states happy.
Shutting down Goddard would literally destroy any chance of NASA regaining any pull in the R&D world. It has world class facilities; most centers like KSC, JSC and MSFC are mostly operations focused and do not have the skillset to do too much R&D. I truly believe NASA should pivot more towards smaller scale R&D projects to help commercial companies with gap technologies; the larger technologies (as done in the past), should be developed between competitive commercial partners.
Important points:
“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.”
This is terrible news. Roman is a great instrument. Telescopes are critical for science research and are generally always a good investment IMHO.
“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.”
The DAVINCI mission is incredible. Venus needs more missions and is largely unexplored. Mars Sample Return would be not a gigantic loss–I think the funding should instead be used for other JPL missions; but instead they’re just going to try and gut the entire center. I think the concept of Mars Sample Return is largely flawed for the price point… other missions/technology are more critical.
Everyone needs to call their representatives NOW. This is stoppable, but we need to act promptly. This would destroy space science in the US, including the reputation the US has abroad.
Their goal is to privatize the entire federal government
guys, how are we gonna exclusively fund papa elons spacex if pesky nasa keeps taking all the funding….think
Republicans are getting revenge on science for… COVID, climate change, evolution, and getting their kids to think critically about church.
The R for Republican should just mean Russian now
At least some billionaires made some more money the other day after being told when to buy.