NASA terminating $420 million in contracts not aligned with its new priorities.
Space agency reportedly being pushed to focus on Mars, a priority of commercial partner SpaceX founder Elon Musk
https://www.the-independent.com/space/nasa-contract-termination-trump-doge-b2721477.html
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Just the USA government showing it can’t be trusted with anything anymore.
they do realize we have around a year to prepare and send a human to mars? there’s no chance we make that happen. the next window to visit would be after trumps term lol. why are they so set on going to fucking mars holy shit.
obviously we will work our way toward humans visiting, then eventually colonizing other planets. but that’s not happening in our lifetime so why rush this dumbass first country on mars shit
Musk would like the American taxpayer to pay for his trip into retirement on Mars
>“We were just about to get a thing going with the new space engineering major at Texas A&M, I was gonna have minions to do my bidding, all up in smoke,” said Clark Newman, principal engineer for NASA Gateway Mission Design.
Interesting they decided to use this quote, considering the rest of the article is portraying these kind of cuts as bad.
According to Elon he is not the bad guy. It’s all of you that have an opinion that differs from his that are the bad guy.
A lot of sane washing in that article. “doge” isn’t a real agency and shouldn’t be treated as such by the press.
The plans to Mars that Elon is looking at has been deemed to offer worse benefit/cost than probes to other worlds. I for one would rather see Europa Clipper than a money sink of this order, when NASA funds are being cut at the same time.
They’re killing grants that are only partially paid out. Usually the front end is when you buy the equipment and the rest is paying personnel. Now you get a bunch of sensors and equipment that are just sitting around going unused and the government gets no research out of all the money they already spent. Great fucking thinking there Elon
This whole flying to mars and making it livable is a moronic fucking crack pipe dream.
Spend the money to make earth a far better place.
“Change Management Support Services” is stuff like Arena/Oracle/Visual databases of specifications and revision control.
SpaceX and Tesla are notoriously bad about documentation and revision control – let alone verification and validation.
NASA manages documentation and revision control not only for themselves, but also for the subcontractors. Those “Change Management Support Services” are keeping Engineering/Purchasing BOMs aligned, keeping the right parts going into clean rooms to build satellites, and keeping projects on track for launch.
Cutting it will result in work slowdowns, confusion, failed missions, and maybe even loss of life.
What’s next? NASA to only use SpaceX rockets. Also, is the company name short for ‘Space Sex’? He has models S ,3 X and Y in Tesla.
This is so dumb.
Drill Baby, Drill! Same administration wants to burn down the world around us, while dismantling our scientific institutions, is supposed to be the one that is gonna take us to Mars? Lol. OK.
I will piss on my head while doing a handstand if we get a single living human being on the surface of Mars in Elon’s lifetime.
Send Elon now. He’s so great and efficient, don’t even wait for the transit window. Have a nice Sol.
Mars is a lure.
It’s the perfect promise for a never-ending funding.
Just ask the church how they did it.
Any thoughts on if this will affect the Artemis missions?
$420M, get it, 420. Ha ha ha. So funny. Fuck this immature goon
“We’re cutting your staff and funding also we want you to get Americans on Mars a feat that is so difficult that no other country has yet even attempted it yet.
Also we want most of what you do to be passed off the SpaceX and if you somehow figure out how to get people on Mars we’ll make sure to take you off that project and give the credit to Space X as well”
– The current administration of the US government to NASA.
The human body can’t live on Mars long term due to the low gravity. No one likes to talk about that.
Oh good, I’m so glad Musk is setting our priorities, he seems like a competent sane individual.
We don’t have the technology to go to mars. We don’t even have a refueler to launch ahead of time, for any space rocket that gets halfway.
Hell, we can’t even land on the moon again…
This money is just going to line Elon’s pockets.
It’s just so sad to see NASA become just another tool in the belt of a fascist regime. So much for dreams of real space exploration through them.
When I was a kid, the U.S. was proud of NASA. Now we are stripping and attacking NASA for politics and profit.
Ah yes, let’s just write off Earth, the only inhabitable planet, and put all our money on $MARS. Very cogent thought process.
this reminds of the great Harland Williams flick, RocketMan, where Commander Overbeck asks his character, “How’d you like to be the first person to *die* on Mars?”
feels like Trump/Musk is going to rush a Mars landing to say they did it first and it’ll be a disaster from getting rushed so badly
Bet China gets there first with a manned craft. They laid out an aggressive plan.
They do realise that those projects are required to build the infrastructure that will get us to Mars? Or is Trump’s entire view of space travel shaped by Wallace and Gromit?
No real air, poison soil, solar radiation, no usable water. …. Musk is a moron.
420. Not fucking funny. They are destroying real science and people’s careers and laughing about it.
Looks like these missions that take two or three decades will be upended every time there is a new administration now.
So China takes the Moon while we limp our ass to Mars. Good stuff.
Employments everywhere. Weird that a government run by a felon would engage in overtime criminal behavior.
$420? That’s high dude. See what I did there
Its only fair that americans pay for Elons childhood dream 🙂
I wonder if this administration can spell ‘conflict of interest’?
NASA you have X amount of dollars to pretend you made a space station on mars and pretend to ferry people back and forth. Invite Elon on a real trip and what happens after that does not matter.
Abandon science, provide profits for Elon Musk.
Skipping the moon in favor of Mars is the clearest case I’ve ever seen of putting the space cart before the space horse.
And it’s certainly not allaying my fears that the Mars shot is just a fucking vanity project. And isn’t THAT a disgusting notion in and of itself.
Musk will apparently decide what the best use of US taxpayer money is.
Goodbye US space superiority, USSR started it China and India will do the rest.
Hopefully history will remind NASA and first man on the moon, but surely not Falcon9 nor the never happening Starship
There’s fucking no reason to send people to mars. Why is every single thing they do so fucking stupid?
It took less than two months for me to lose all interest in following Nasa developments. Twitter was about the same timeframe. I’m sitting her excited about learning which venture he’ll ruin in two months or less next time.
“Let’s save earth!”
“No! Let’s move to mars!”
“Using technology that could save earth?”
“Yes!”
“…”