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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone posted an ARS technica article a few days ago and said trump wants to cut NASAs budget by 20%.  [/quote]

I posted it. The article specifically mentions closure of Goddard.  Goddard does mostly unmanned instrumentation- earth observing, climate, planetary, astrophysics, black holes. This administration doesn’t value science esp. Not anything related to climate or Earth observing work Goddard does is incredibly valuable snd unmanned space science returns way more value on the dollar than manned missions. Consider PACE that launched last year. Monitors world-wide plankton counts and type, health of the oceans, climate, and aerosol coverage for period of five years. Total cost per US citizen spent over 15 years was $3. Over fifteen years. Huge return on investment.

I have heard rifs might start this week.  Expect to see them keep Houston, Huntsville, Florida, and Glenn (Ohio) because politics. Much of the funding will switch to SpaceX and Blue Origin.

As a side note, a trip to Mars is a waste of money at this point. It takes several months to get there, but far longer to get back due to difference in orbits. We don’t have anything close to making that happen. It’s just a massive money dump to Musk.

I expect the rifs will decimate the [/quote]

Rifs this week?  Ugh.  Where did you hear that?

I’m almost afraid that the evil ones will just rif all of Roman to get ahead of the congressional pushback it’s sure to get.[/quote]

If they are closing Goddard, that seems likely. [/quote]

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