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    NASA may have to cancel major space missions due to budget cuts

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    1. New_Scientist_Mag on

      Speaking to *New Scientist*, Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, warned that the situation could have international ramifications. “Dismantling NASA’s highly skilled workforce would be a giant leap backwards for the United States and enable a giant leap forward for China,” she said. “Senseless and reckless reductions will cripple the agency’s ability to maintain its leadership in cutting-edge innovation, curiosity-driven science and human exploration.”

    2. SDLRob on

      Isn’t that the point of the cuts? slash the budget, leave an opening for SpaceX and then replace NASA with SpaceX

    4. FishSandwiches on

      “NASA is preparing for substantial budget cuts that may force the cancellation of ongoing and upcoming missions across the solar system” … at first this reads as sensationalistic but it’s actually literally true.

    5. RedBaret on

      The corruption is so brazenly open it’s quite literally insane the US people just roll over and present their belly, tail waggling, whilst they are being robbed and scammed.

    6. jtroopa on

      Well, there goes the chance of going to the moon and beyond.
      I’ll bet that we’ll have like ONE Starship mission to land folks on Mars just so Trusk can say they did it first, and then that’s all we’ll get.

    7. theReluctantObserver on

      Time to move to Europe, NASA’s budget would easily be covered across a couple of countries.

    8. Scorpius_OB1 on

      If that was going to happen, it would be the most ignominious end for missions as legendary as the Voyagers or Hubble.

    9. chesterforbes on

      Translation: NASA being phased out in favour of SpaceX, whose rockets are now nearly 52% explosion free

    10. aDirtyMartini on

      So Musk, who owns spacex and is in charge of DOGE who is rampantly cutting budgets and laying off federal workers will be cutting the budget of NASA who is basically spacex’s competition? He also is slashing budgets and staffing levels of government agencies that regulate his companies.

      HOW THE HELL IS THIS LEGAL?

    11. SeverableSole7 on

      Can we start a go fund me for NASA? As sad as that sounds I’d be more than happy to donate

    12. SonOfThomasWayne on

      Letting private space corporations do launches is a mistake.

      It will very much lead to a weyland-yutani future, not a star-trek future.

    13. KermitFrog647 on

      Dont worry, the money is not lost. It will be used wisely by spacex the way master elon thinks is best.

    14. dsmo on

      Thank you Melon. The wimp who wanted to build a city on mars has turned out to be impotent and useless. What a twist.