Senate response to White House budget for NASA: Keep SLS, nix science
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/senate-response-to-white-house-budget-for-nasa-keep-sls-nix-science/
Senate response to White House budget for NASA: Keep SLS, nix science
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/senate-response-to-white-house-budget-for-nasa-keep-sls-nix-science/
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Science is so 19th-20th century. We don’t need that anymore. Pure theocracy going forward.
Aka: keep jobs in red states, scrap any actual research.
Kinda funny how stupid and small literally every single Republican is
We’re gonna go to the Moon just to walk around and come right back! It is a bad neighborhood after all.
That’s literally the opposite of what everyone wants.
Basically keep the jobs programs for their areas, but no real progress on anything.
This is why handing things off to the government is such a scary idea. Once people’s lives start to rely on the pork barrel spending, it won’t get cut no matter who stupid and inefficient it is. We need to rip the Band aid off. Just set a date and let people prepare. “We’re shutting NASA down jan 2041, start preparing”
Senate.
Launch.
System.
It’s right in the name!
ffs we could have just built constellation instead of this quagmire.
When you have a simple mind, you can only think in terms of simple problems and of simple solutions. Washington abounds with simple people.
The most upside down prioritizing from an ass-backwards Senate.
Is this really as unpopular as all the comments suggests? Seems like a small win all things considered. Yes, it’s for the wrong reasons, but if we are trying to setup a permanent base on other celestial bodies, what’s the point of any space exploration?
To clarify, the White House already pushed to nix both science and SLS, so just one getting nixed is somewhat of a victory.
I’m beginning to think we should restrict voting for people who do not have at least a 2 year college degree, cause the inability of the average American to think critically leads to voting these kinds of people in, who are actively destroying the country and the things we all care about.
Buy the car, but lets never take it out of the garage.
Stupid is as stupid does. Not surprising.
I guess SLS is a *kind* of science… the science of spending lots of money. It is probably something people will study in the future. You could call that science of a sort.
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|[JPL](/r/Space/comments/1l4h5ux/stub/mw9loxp “Last usage”)|Jet Propulsion Lab, California|
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|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1l4h5ux/stub/mwahysf “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[ULA](/r/Space/comments/1l4h5ux/stub/mw9e0f4 “Last usage”)|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|
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What’s the point of SLS if there’s no science?
Can’t they just double NASA’s budget instead? NASA makes incredibly good returns for the economy and is a good investment of taxpayer money.
“But we got our first glimpse of the Senate’s thinking when the chair of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released his “legislative directives” for NASA on Thursday”
TED CRUZ is the chair of the Commerce, SCIENCE, and Transportation?!?!
We okay fam?!?!?!
Pork, pork, pork- pork
Pork, pork, pork- pork
Pork, pork, pork- pork
Porketty Pork!
It’s pretty clear they’re not interested in pushing society forward, so cutting back on science actually fits their goals. The rich and powerful seem to want a return to something like feudalism, where they stay on top and everyone else stays in place. Education and science are among the biggest threats to what they’re trying to build.
Prepare for the dark ages, because they are coming.
Absolute nonsense. It’s impossible to find any reason in anything happening in the US except *”grift”*.
“Science keeps disagreeing with us, so let’s get rid of it.”
Ah yes. Keep funneling money to Boeing so they can keep making actual got garbage that will kill astronauts because their quality control is a joke. They’re only decades behind and billions over, it’ll be ok with a few more billion, right? Surely that’ll fix it.