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    Trump administration proposes slashing NASA budget by 24%

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    1. Material_Policy6327 on

      Any supporters of this admin who love space are really against advancement of humanity

    2. StrigiStockBacking on

      Odd, because he seems like the kind of person who would want his last name blazoned all over the galaxy

    8. miso25 on

      Reports had suggested that NASA would take it on the chin, and that is indeed the case: The skinny budget slashes NASA funding by $6 billion compared to enacted 2025 levels, from $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion — a cut of 24%. That would be the biggest single-year cut to NASA funding in American history, according to the nonprofit Planetary Society.

    9. Outer_Fucking_Space2 on

      Motherfuckers. How about don’t increase the defense budget to 1T you fake conservatives?

    11. ARazorbacks on

      The brain drain the Trump admin is creating will impact US advancement and GDP for years, if not decades. 

      Unless there’s some kind of massive upheaval in response to Trump and MAGA (think the Trust Busting and New Deal eras) then the US is going to be in a slump for a long time. Likely long enough to lose global hegemony. 

      This will be the legacy of MAGA. 

    12. VSythe998 on

      I remember in his first term, trump was so certain that he didn’t accomplish anything noteworthy, good enough, so in his 4th year, he secretly asked Nasa if they can send a man to mars before the end of his term, something that he never campaigned for and never expressed a desire to do before. Nasa said they couldn’t. trump then said he’d give them whatever they want. Nasa still said they can’t. The desperation was so obvious by the fact that if he truly wanted this, such a big project should have been started at the beginning of his term.

    13. BBTB2 on

      This is just fucking rediculous at this point. US government should be leading the various STEM sectors / segments in all fields, establishing the bar for acceptable standards / guidelines / regulatory specs / other, and bringing the private sector up with it by offloading projects onto those entities that specialize in the various relevant areas of said projects so they, too, can advance their own industries.

      Why is everyone so god damn dumb about the greater interconnected web our government entities weave?

    14. fulltrendypro on

      Cutting NASA to “beat China to the moon” by canceling the mission that actually lands on the moon… that’s cosmic-level irony. 🚀🪐

    15. ImperatorRomanum on

      Meanwhile there’s more than enough budget to have a brand new military parade on his birthday

    16. wpnizer on

      The best way to ensure a project doesn’t get cancelled is to name it after the almighty Trump. You can always rename it to its original name after 2028.

    17. spderweb on

      Guess you guys aren’t going back to the moon for at least another five years.

    18. rroberts3439 on

      I do wonder if there will be an increase in budget to the Space Force, which I know is different and different goals, but a lot man kinds technological progress has been through the military (as sad as that is).

    19. Vespene on

      These budgets from the White House are mostly performative in modern times. They never make it through congress as they are.

    20. ClosPins on

      Remember just half a year ago, when this sub-reddit was ***massively*** pro-Trump and pro-Elon? Pepperidge Farm remembers!