Stalin
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frump is far too stupid to understand science and technology...not aware of cause and effect..and far too easily bribed..
witness the climate change denial and massive hacking of budgets in the areas that give the usa it's last declining areas of excellence and dominance..
i predict the chinese will build a moon base first, and the usa not at all
"..Even as Integrity, the mission moniker for the Orion capsule of Artemis II, ascended into the heavens days ago, Donald Trump was announcing his intention to slash Nasa’s budget by 23%, including a 46% cut for space science initiatives. And the Artemis program that has run years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget offers no guarantees that the next, far harder stages will run as smoothly.
“The path to the lunar surface is open, but the work ahead is greater than the work behind us. It always will be,” Nasa’s associate administrator Amit Kshatriya said on Friday at a post-landing press conference in Houston.
“Fifty three years ago, humanity left the moon. This time we return to stay. Let us finish what they started.”
No space analyst will discount the magnitude of what Artemis II has brought to the US human spaceflight program. Undoubtedly, the vision of a permanent lunar base has moved closer with the knowledge that the US possesses, finally, another proven rocket and capsule assembly that can sustain human life beyond lower-Earth orbit.
But there is also the president, who expressed in a post to his own Truth Social on Friday how proud he was of the “great and very talented” crew while making no mention of his desire to impose “extinction-level” cuts to the agency he purports to value.
Isaacman said he supported the White House desire to strip a further $6bn in funding from his agency, insisting that the levels “are sufficient” to meet “high expectations and deliver on all mission priorities”.
But Casey Dreier, chief of space policy at the Planetary Society, said Isaacman’s argument makes no sense.
“The administrator is part of the administration, and the budget document is an official policy statement of the administration, so he has to be on board,” he said.
“But it’s discordant. The budget itself is seemingly contradictory with a number of statements that Nasa leadership said a few weeks ago at the Ignition event. It adds more confusion to this situation than clarity and is a baffling piece of political ideology from an alternate universe in which they didn’t suffer an overwhelming defeat of that proposal just months ago.”
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comrade stalin
moscow
witness the climate change denial and massive hacking of budgets in the areas that give the usa it's last declining areas of excellence and dominance..
i predict the chinese will build a moon base first, and the usa not at all
"..Even as Integrity, the mission moniker for the Orion capsule of Artemis II, ascended into the heavens days ago, Donald Trump was announcing his intention to slash Nasa’s budget by 23%, including a 46% cut for space science initiatives. And the Artemis program that has run years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget offers no guarantees that the next, far harder stages will run as smoothly.
“The path to the lunar surface is open, but the work ahead is greater than the work behind us. It always will be,” Nasa’s associate administrator Amit Kshatriya said on Friday at a post-landing press conference in Houston.
“Fifty three years ago, humanity left the moon. This time we return to stay. Let us finish what they started.”
No space analyst will discount the magnitude of what Artemis II has brought to the US human spaceflight program. Undoubtedly, the vision of a permanent lunar base has moved closer with the knowledge that the US possesses, finally, another proven rocket and capsule assembly that can sustain human life beyond lower-Earth orbit.
But there is also the president, who expressed in a post to his own Truth Social on Friday how proud he was of the “great and very talented” crew while making no mention of his desire to impose “extinction-level” cuts to the agency he purports to value.
Isaacman said he supported the White House desire to strip a further $6bn in funding from his agency, insisting that the levels “are sufficient” to meet “high expectations and deliver on all mission priorities”.
But Casey Dreier, chief of space policy at the Planetary Society, said Isaacman’s argument makes no sense.
“The administrator is part of the administration, and the budget document is an official policy statement of the administration, so he has to be on board,” he said.
“But it’s discordant. The budget itself is seemingly contradictory with a number of statements that Nasa leadership said a few weeks ago at the Ignition event. It adds more confusion to this situation than clarity and is a baffling piece of political ideology from an alternate universe in which they didn’t suffer an overwhelming defeat of that proposal just months ago.”
Jubilant return of Artemis II shadowed by ‘extinction-level’ cuts to Nasa: ‘It’s discordant’
Even as a triumphant moon flyby primes agency for a 2028 landing, Trump’s proposed budget cuts cast pall on US space program
comrade stalin
moscow
