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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

He, and the GOP controlled congress, successfully cut budget for NASA an laid of tons of its staff, and he also insisted on launching new moon missions which currently isn't even viable and Artemis II is nothing but a little airshow as they make a loop around in a big circle before returning.

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/press/dem/release/science-survives-existential-threat-from-trump-budget-as-senate-rejects-gutting-nasa-nsf-nist/

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R43419

https://ourplnt.com/budget-of-nasa-year-by-year/

Don't get me wrong. I still haven't found a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the GOP. It's more likely that Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Airbus, et. al. reminded then who's writing the checks to PACs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program

The Artemis program infrastructure is mostly stuff advanced by Obama and Biden era Congresses and Administrations.

The loop is a well precedented procedure for testing components that have not been used for a mission before. They did the same for the Apollo program.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

My apologies, I was unaware that the original 24% cut was eventually rejected.

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

No apology necessary. What you said is exactly what Trump was trying to do. I believe turning NASA into an air circus is exactly the plan. I hope that plan fails.