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NASA rushed engineers out of their labs. They say it risks future space missions (www.npr.org)
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I work on Roman, it was chaos, more than people realize. And it's hard to see it written down honestly. These are our tax dollars the administration tried to dump down the drain. Decades of experience just tossed aside.

If you think this is a niche issue, and it doesn't affect you, it does. These were weather predictions projects, crop monitoring data projects, forest fire data collection, flood and natural disaster monitoring. All of these satellite projects that they tried to cut give us real-time data that people don't realize we use im our daily lives. Even ground water data, which should be of interest to everyone.

This doesn't even get into the stuff that has been made hyper political by the Trump administration.

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NASA rushed engineers out of their labs. They say it risks future space missions (www.npr.org)
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It's sad to see stuff i saw happen in person in the news now. It was really difficult to work on the Roman Space Telescope while all this was happening. People are celebrating the launch, but forgetting how difficult the conditions were that we were working under.