A plan written by Trump’s NASA pick was leaked. Here’s what to know about ‘Project Athena’
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/science/nasa-jared-isaacman-project-athena
A plan written by Trump’s NASA pick was leaked. Here’s what to know about ‘Project Athena’
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/science/nasa-jared-isaacman-project-athena
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Let me guess, privatize the profits but using public money?
So break what should be free, and make us pay to fix it.
I don’t want to hear about any more god damn “projects” in the US until the current party in power is no more
We don’t have a government anymore in the USA, we have a Corporation. The government won’t do anything in the public good unless they somehow think they’ll make monetary gains. That’s not how a government is supposed to operate, but is exactly how corporations operate.
Jeebus that CNN article was so poorly written. The whole thing is about feeding as many ads to you whilst repeating crap, whilst withholding the crux of the article which was the leak and what it actually said.
Wow, there are a lot of really ignorant and uneducated people in this forum.
Issacman is objectively one of the best fits for NASA, hes not even “right wing”
Yet people are against it because orange man bad…
This would be a big W for NASA and could revolutionize the way the US does space travel. For the better.
I don’t know if the “run fast and break things” tech policy is the best practice for space exploration.
Where screwing something up can cost lives.
All you need to know about *any* plan put together by *any* Trump pick, is that it will be an unrecoverable disaster.
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|[BE-4](/r/Space/comments/1otpkjd/stub/no6lh6o “Last usage”)|Blue Engine 4 methalox rocket engine, developed by Blue Origin (2018), 2400kN|
|[CLPS](/r/Space/comments/1otpkjd/stub/no679du “Last usage”)|[Commercial Lunar Payload Services](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Services)|
|[COTS](/r/Space/comments/1otpkjd/stub/no6k7c0 “Last usage”)|[Commercial Orbital Transportation Services contract](https://www.nasa.gov/cots)|
| |Commercial/Off The Shelf|
|[JPL](/r/Space/comments/1otpkjd/stub/no679du “Last usage”)|Jet Propulsion Lab, California|
|[JWST](/r/Space/comments/1otpkjd/stub/no6mv7m “Last usage”)|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope|
|[NG](/r/Space/comments/1otpkjd/stub/no6lhha “Last usage”)|New Glenn, two/three-stage orbital vehicle by Blue Origin|
| |Natural Gas (as opposed to pure methane)|
| |Northrop Grumman, aerospace manufacturer|
|[SES](/r/Space/comments/1otpkjd/stub/no6mv7m “Last usage”)|Formerly Société Européenne des Satellites, a major SpaceX customer|
| |Second-stage Engine Start|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1otpkjd/stub/no6kagj “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[TDRSS](/r/Space/comments/1otpkjd/stub/no6mv7m “Last usage”)|(US) Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System|
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|methalox|Portmanteau: methane fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer|
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>But he did not wish to debate the plan “line-by-line while NASA and the rest of the government are going through a shutdown,” according to the November 4 post.
Shut down is over, let’s go over it line by line.
>The document also maps out similar policies that could be applied across many of NASA’s initiatives, such as recommendations to embrace “science-as-service” for future projects.
So basically they just need someone to sanctify the science cuts and the budget itself because of the evil evil climate research. Because who needs the science anyway? “Great” news for China and Europe though, basically surrending the whole academic field and the best talents. Will take decades to repair the damage.
Dismantling your aerospace sector and making it dependent on the private sector is an idea that not even China or Russia would have dreamed of.
Hell, they’re probably already drafting “unrefusable offers” for those private companies.