Although the budget would continue support for ongoing missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, it would kill the much-anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory seen as on par with those two world-class instruments that is already fully assembled and on budget for a launch in two years.
Other significant cuts include ending funding for Mars Sample Return as well as the DAVINCI mission to Venus. The budget cuts also appear intended to force the closure of Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland where the agency has 10,000 civil servants and contractors.
How long until NASA gets privatized and folded into Space-X? This has to be the plan right?
I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t already happened.
I saw this one coming a while back. Nazi American Space Assholes incoming.
To be fair, that was the original NASA team as well.
Not the original NASA science team. That was the engineers. This is a about NASA’s science budget.
SpaceX can launch Falcon rockets very well, but they have little expertise to design and plan experiments, build and operate telescopes, etc.
Among the proposals were: A two-thirds cut to astrophysics, down to $487 million; a greater than two-thirds cut to heliophysics, down to $455 million; a greater than 50 percent cut to Earth science, down to $1.033 billion; and a 30 percent cut to Planetary science, down to $1.929 billion.
Absolute madness, especially when compared to the increase in military budget.
who needs science when you make your own truth.
I sure wish Earth were flat. Then bulldoze the entire D.C. off the edge.
