Grim news... Trump's 2026 budget would slash NASA funding by 24% and its workforce by nearly one third

[WKTaylor]

https://www.space.com/space-explora...percent-and-its-workforce-by-nearly-one-third

A number of high-profile missions would get the axe, including the New Horizons Pluto probe and Juno Jupiter orbiter.
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The worst could be worse... I guess... we will instantly become a third world space exploration country.
Science = enemy of GOPMAGA

 

[IRstuff]

The worst could be worse... I guess... we will instantly become a third world space exploration country.
Science = enemy of GOPMAGA

Leaving SpaceX well positioned

 

[btrueblood]

New Horizons - this is a probe that is already past Pluto (having returned some spectacular pictures of same) and planning to intercept several more Kuiper belt objects before being mothballed...something like the Voyager probes. I'm thinking NASA can lobby for more funding once they point out we can get some cool pictures of stuff nobody has seen before...maybe. Probably.

Juno orbiter - in place around Jupiter and powered by solar cells, mission life can probably extend another 10 years with careful management...why would we abandon it? Sigh...

 

[WKTaylor]

BTB ref Your #3...

Perhaps these live space-science gems will need the equivalent of a 'go-fund-me' page to survive this 'bloody hack-job'...

 

[1503-44]

Elon and his 4 coders will take up the slack.
Just tell us what planet you want to go to.
We can simulate anything.
AI makes very good pictures of anything nobody has ever seen before and hopefully never will again.

3rd world? Such high hopes you have.

 

[IRstuff]

We can simulate anything.

We're already in a simulation

 

[GregLocock]

I am in a simulation. You lot are just NPCs.