During a town hall Wednesday, NASA officials on stage looked like hostages | A Trump appointee suggests NASA may not have a new administrator until next year.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/during-a-town-hall-wednesday-nasa-officials-on-stage-looked-like-hostages/
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Who needs space exploration when trust fund babies are crying out for another deficit exploding tax cut?
After the third person got up there and said the same sweet nothings of “we are still committed fully to the mission and we appreciate every one of your contributions” it was clear that this was a pointless exercise.
They have no answers, if they have a plan they aren’t telling us what it is. NASA employees are left to twist in the wind and wonder if they’ll have a job in 6 months, or next week, and if that job will be the same one they currently hold
If presidents can’t do war outside USA it happens inside… or both now …
How humiliating. Can you imagine dedicating your immense talents and time to such a noble selfless pursuit, an entire career, only to be so publicly undermined? Hopefully the private sector treats them better
There is probably not a single government agency with a more dedicated workforce than NASA. Those people absolutely love the agency and the work they do. I’m sure they are completely disheartened to be helplessly watching the guts torn out of NASA.
What do we even need NASA for Elon can blow up rockets, pollute the environment, endanger the public, and disrupt trade for multiple times the cost with no public benefit or scientific advancement.
Janet Petro is not a “Trump apointee”. Good lord the misinformation.
She’s an engineer and 11th director of the Kennedy Space Center. She’s worked at NASA since 2017. She’s the temporary acting administrator until an ACTUAL Trump appointee is chosen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Petro
Letting China winning the new Space Race so billionaires could have their tax cuts.
What could go wrong?