Former NASA Boss Joe Rothenberg Says We May Be Destroying America’s Only Shot at Space – “Long term and potentially unrecoverable consequences.”
Former NASA Boss Joe Rothenberg Says We May Be Destroying America’s Only Shot at Space – “Long term and potentially unrecoverable consequences.”
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Well, at least the 10 richest Americans gained $360 billion last year.
This is for you, Zuck.
We are sacrificing NASA.
For you.
Enjoy.
I’m sure China will sell us some rockets if we can afford them.
I’m kind of expecting that the end of this year.. NASA won’t be recognizable at all. In fact, it might get demoted and absorbed into Space Force instead… besides, Republicans have always wanted to destroy NASA since to them its always ‘waste’, nothing that NASA can even offer. MAGAs will cheer like either sheep or a clapping seal. Their vision is slowly turning into reality.
Thank goodness conservatives are thinking of the rich and stifling science. We’re so fortunate to have *almost* climbed out of theocracy-level idiocy.
America won the space sprint, but will lose the space marathon. 💯
MAGA will be the death of America. There’s no coming back from this.
We? It is just Republicans doing what they do best destroying America
“It’s impractical, we got to realistic first, we are never leaving earth because science fiction is bad, it’s too expensive thus unattainable, the writers say it’s unrealistic so we can’t do it.”
Gee, who would of thought a constant barrage from anti-escapists and so called realists would kneecap out scientific endeavors.
“Long term and potentially unrecoverable consequences” is pretty much this administration’s campaign promise.
In 20 years humanity will probably explore space, it just won’t be what’s left of a fractured US Confederacy.
What were once called blue states become the WE/ EU/ A Allied forces
China will be the driving force with the exploration of space in cooperation with the United Democratic Nations.
The United States does not exist and is non relevant in this future
Humans don’t deserve to leave this earth so even if we’re failing at space travel because the worst people imaginable keep getting into power, the rest of the universe will at least be spared from the staph infection of stupidity that is our species.
You mean like Columbia and Challenger under the care of NASA the brightest leaders?
“Do you want some medicine?” – Doctor said to the widow of Capt. Smith
“No, but if you have some medicine for the heartache, I will take it.”
Until today NASA retired program managers still refuse to take the responsibilities.
The absolute destruction of NASA has been terrifying.
…Yeah. That appears to be the point of the policies. Make it so it can’t function, claim it can’t function, dissolve the organization, cross through the organization on the budget chart, cashapp the congressional budget to your billionaire buds. See also *several other organizations*
This might be a cynical desire, but I’m kind of excited to see what’ll happen if China “beats” the US back to the Moon, or actually beats us to Mars.
By & large, the average American doesn’t give a shit about space on a good day. I spend a lot of time in my personal life talking people down from the “why burn money in space when we have problems on Earth” mentality. Us Americans don’t have pride in our space program, but folks in many other countries (China and India in particular) do.
It’ll be an interesting decade ahead. I’m not particularly confident in SpaceX or Blue Origin’s lunar architecture being ready ahead of China’s, but I’m open to being proven wrong
Man we’ve barely explored space and now this happened
Yeah but if there are no shareholders to profit from NASA then why bother /S
Is this an error in effectively scrapping NASA and other scientific research groups? ABSOLUTELY.
Is it completely unrecoverable? No. All it will take is a miracle for new leadership to take over and re-priorities scientific endevours and give them a LOT more funding to basically make up for lost time and attract new talent to the field.
Even if the, and a big if, the cuts to NASA are reversed, it will take years, maybe decades to recover the loss of knowledge and expertise from former NASA employees and projects that have been cut so far.
I missed the wagon train back in the 1870’s, guess it’s too late to go to California now.
NASA really put a target on their back when they started posting proof of climate change.
I just hope other countries will lead the world into the future, because the America empire is crumpling under MAGA. I don’t see how we’ll recover from all this.
But besides the “space” part of NASA’s job, all of the advancements and useful products that have either been a direct result of solving problems or gaining a wider knowledge of both the world and the universe that have come out of nasa funded research, they just cant see the benefits far outweigh the costs. Even billionaires couldn’t have funded all that alone. They’re cutting off so many research projects, its criminal in my eyes. This isn’t how I want my tax dollars spent, just to enrich a dozen or so people’s fortunes. Someone posted yesterday that hunger could be essentially eliminated with 25 billion dollars a year. Between the Musks and the Bezos’ of this world they could write a check tomorrow and never miss it. Sorry for the rant.
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|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[DoD](/r/Space/comments/1mcoual/stub/n5vqw25 “Last usage”)|US Department of Defense|
|[ESA](/r/Space/comments/1mcoual/stub/n5vqw25 “Last usage”)|European Space Agency|
|[ICBM](/r/Space/comments/1mcoual/stub/n5vmwdv “Last usage”)|Intercontinental Ballistic Missile|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1mcoual/stub/n5vjn6f “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
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