NASA went woke and now they go broke. Shouldn’t surprise anyone.
And this is after NASA wasted billions on SLS, Constellation and Artemis?
This is exactly the attitude that a culture of abundance promotes.
As opposed to . . . “there is no greater need than to advance space science, and that means space science, like absolutely everything else, has to be gutted because WE CAN’T AFFORD IT. We can’t even afford food.”
That’s abundance, deluding oneself into thinking you have choice, vs scarcity, where starvation trumps delusion.
muslim supremacy isn’t science.
NASA has gone woke. Now it has to pay the price to get serious again. The best they can do now is wave the flag from the 1960s and 70s.
But they have lost the edge. Their problem isn’t money, it’s woke and waste.
They couldn’t get those astronauts home from the space station without Musk. Hell, they couldn’t get them there without Musk or the failed Boeing capsule.
Just use the same arguments he democrats use. “Cutting NASA will kill millions, starve children, and throw granny off the cliff so her wheel chair can be recycled by a billionaire.”
Space travel is a luxury, not a necessity. We’ve got all kinds of problems on the rock let alone what we may gain in the stars. Some things may have to go on the back burner for a while until the funds are available. The porterhouse steak dinner has shifted to smaller less expensive cuts for the moment.
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NASA needs to get creative
Put NASA under Space Force.
I had the good fortune of meeting the head of OMB in Trump 1.0. His administration is not anti-science, they just know where the waste, fraud and abuse reside.
Generally agree with you, but the “Mission to Planet Earth” crap that still eats up a large part of NASA’s budget needed to go for long time. Most other stuff...agree, should have been maintained.
NASA has been on a downward spiral since Bush II thanks to incompetent management, DEI, poor recruiting, top-down management, turf-building, and straying from its original mission. It needs to be reorganized with most of its management released, and a renewed emphasis on hiring bright technical people, whose time will not be wasted on administrative functions. Fewer and fewer qualified technical people have been hired through the years, with most of the emphasis on contracting work with unqualified staff. Recent emphasis on Science was a waste of money, meanwhile its formerly major contribution towards Aeronautics (the first A in NASA) has all but dried up. Just cutting its budget only leads to surviving the remaining weeds. Its early missions of Aeronautics and Space led to many major contributions, because it could take risks that corporate America were unwilling to take. Best to reorganize and revitalize with a new management that is bottom-up/technology driven, or stop wasting our money and just close it down.
NASA is about 10% science and 90% waste and politics.
It could be cut in half and still do the science, but it doesn’t want to. It is a DEI org only.
"Funding for space exploration. $10 billion is allotted for missions to Mars, $325 million in order to de-orbit the International Space Station, and $85 million to move a space shuttle from National Air and Space Museum to Texas."
Killing the space station was a surprise to me but by most accounts it's degraded terribly over time and is now a ridiculously dangerous environment for astronauts performing long-term experiments. I'd argue for an updated and state-of-the-art replacement built with an emphasis on safety, accessibility and expansion with a permanent escape vehicle attached.
Budget cuts are estimated to be around 30% overall, mostly in Earth studies, with a third of NASA's employees being laid off (please please let them be DEI wastes of tax monies).
"The White House Office of Management and Budget claimed in its budget request that NASA’s current spending levels on science missions –– more than $7 billion –– are “unsustainable” and that a $3.9 billion budget would be able to support a “leaner, more focused Science program.”
We constantly overlook how the space programs have led to improvement of our daily lives in ways both obvious and unseen. We're just now getting to where projects like the Space Elevator and economically viable radiation shielding previously thought to be impossible are feasible. Terraforming Mars is no longer for science fiction novels.
How far are we behind because the giant Texas Collider was cancelled 20 years ago? What advancements have we lost because of the budgetary myopia of that time?
And how much of our lunch are our enemies going to eat because they aren't as penny wise pound foolish?
Sounds like NASA needs to prioritize, like all govt depts. Money doesn’t grow in space.
Angry is again wrong.
Private enterprise is a far better way to address space needs.
NASA’s priority has been Muslim and LGBTQ crud for far too long.
I like the science, but not the cost. Maybe if NASA had tried to even remotely run itself as a “for profit” business like SpaceX... they wouldn’t be paying $1500 for a hammer and $50k for a toilet seat.
Imagine the science we could have had without all the payola and graft...
“Coupled with the possible collapse of SpaceX from 47’s vengeance feud with Musk”
Generally, one has to be pretty reasonable to reach the top level.
“SpaceX”
As far as space is concerned, Space X’s recent launch failures are the most concerning.
Good it should be. When NASA turned it’s back on real science to push DEI and Climate Change propaganda, it ended it usefullness
It time Conservative grow up. EVERYTHING needs to be cut. You can’t have any scared cows. This is how we gotten 36 trillion in debt. Instead of cutting anything, we always have this or that scared cow that “must” be funded no matter how corrupt or useless the agency has become.