Stalin
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The biggest ignoramus in history strikes again...from the man who does not understand the greenhouse effect which prevents the
mean temperature of the earth being -18 centigrade
en.wikipedia.org
"..On January 3, NASA closed the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the largest research library in the agency. The closure follows months of chaotic building shutdowns, laboratory dismantling and workforce reduction that have gutted one of the most important centers for space science in the United States.
The library housed over 100,000 volumes, including books, scientific journals and historical documents dating from the early 20th century through the space race with the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. Many of these materials have not been digitized and are unavailable anywhere else. NASA officials claim the holdings will undergo a 60-day review, with some materials stored in government warehouses and the rest discarded.
The shutdown is part of what NASA calls a facilities consolidation plan that will close 13 buildings and more than 100 laboratories on the 1,270-acre Goddard campus by March. The workforce at Goddard has been reduced from more than 10,000 to 6,600 through buyouts, early retirements and layoffs carried out under the Department of Government Efficiency campaign early last year.
Goddard has been central to NASA space astronomy missions for decades. The Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope were designed and built at the Maryland facility, along with dozens of others. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope), scheduled to launch in 2027, was also developed there, though funding for the project faces elimination under proposed budget cuts from the Trump administration.
Dan Weedman, who served as head of NASA Astrophysics from 1993 to 1995 and later as program director at the National Science Foundation, spoke to the World Socialist Web Site about the broader attack on space science infrastructure that the Goddard closures represent.
“The big issue is there’s no question it’s part of the intention to basically dismantle Goddard,” Weedman said. “And in doing that they'll be dismantling most of our infrastructure for these space astronomy missions. They did the crucial engineering for Hubble and JWST, and they built the Roman and they will be responsible for operating it. But I think that that’s probably the last big astronomy mission we'll ever have, because the effort is moving toward privatized human space flight.
comrade stalin
moscow
mean temperature of the earth being -18 centigrade
Greenhouse effect - Wikipedia
"..On January 3, NASA closed the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the largest research library in the agency. The closure follows months of chaotic building shutdowns, laboratory dismantling and workforce reduction that have gutted one of the most important centers for space science in the United States.
The library housed over 100,000 volumes, including books, scientific journals and historical documents dating from the early 20th century through the space race with the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. Many of these materials have not been digitized and are unavailable anywhere else. NASA officials claim the holdings will undergo a 60-day review, with some materials stored in government warehouses and the rest discarded.
The shutdown is part of what NASA calls a facilities consolidation plan that will close 13 buildings and more than 100 laboratories on the 1,270-acre Goddard campus by March. The workforce at Goddard has been reduced from more than 10,000 to 6,600 through buyouts, early retirements and layoffs carried out under the Department of Government Efficiency campaign early last year.
Goddard has been central to NASA space astronomy missions for decades. The Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope were designed and built at the Maryland facility, along with dozens of others. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope), scheduled to launch in 2027, was also developed there, though funding for the project faces elimination under proposed budget cuts from the Trump administration.
Dan Weedman, who served as head of NASA Astrophysics from 1993 to 1995 and later as program director at the National Science Foundation, spoke to the World Socialist Web Site about the broader attack on space science infrastructure that the Goddard closures represent.
“The big issue is there’s no question it’s part of the intention to basically dismantle Goddard,” Weedman said. “And in doing that they'll be dismantling most of our infrastructure for these space astronomy missions. They did the crucial engineering for Hubble and JWST, and they built the Roman and they will be responsible for operating it. But I think that that’s probably the last big astronomy mission we'll ever have, because the effort is moving toward privatized human space flight.
NASA closes Goddard Space Flight Center library as it dismantles astronomy infrastructure
The closure of NASA's largest research library at Goddard Space Flight Center represents a deliberate attack on scientific infrastructure and marks another step toward the privatization of space exploration.
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comrade stalin
moscow
