Originally posted by Arvaos:

Why is Trump so focused on cutting funding to space exploration? Dozens of future missions will be cancelled because of these cuts.

Originally posted by Arvaos:

In a grand show of unity, all seven living former Associate Administrators of NASA's Science Mission Directorate have signed a joint letter opposing the Trump administration's proposed 47% cut to NASA's 2026 science budget.

Originally posted by Santa Klaus:

MAGA loves Trump because he's going to get NASA to start landing on the moon again and land on Mars for the first time, just like they did in his first term!

MAGA also loves Trump because he's cutting money to that 'woke communist queer' organisation called NASA to stop them 'turning space gay'!

There is no contradiction there at all, it all makes perfect sense!! /s

Originally posted by Arvaos:

In a grand show of unity, all seven living former Associate Administrators of NASA's Science Mission Directorate have signed a joint letter opposing the Trump administration's proposed 47% cut to NASA's 2026 science budget. They "unanimously urge Congress to reject the proposed cuts to NASA's budget" and request that the NASA Science Mission Directorate retain its 2025 budget.

Additionally, bipartisan groups in both the House and the Senate have issued their own letters opposing the budget cut.

Why is Trump so focused on cutting funding to space exploration? Dozens of future missions will be cancelled because of these cuts.

The only chance humanity has is to colonise other planets and create an interstellar civilisation.

Originally posted by miakisfan:

Originally posted by Arvaos:

In a grand show of unity, all seven living former Associate Administrators of NASA's Science Mission Directorate have signed a joint letter opposing the Trump administration's proposed 47% cut to NASA's 2026 science budget. They "unanimously urge Congress to reject the proposed cuts to NASA's budget" and request that the NASA Science Mission Directorate retain its 2025 budget.

Additionally, bipartisan groups in both the House and the Senate have issued their own letters opposing the budget cut.

Why is Trump so focused on cutting funding to space exploration? Dozens of future missions will be cancelled because of these cuts.

The only chance humanity has is to colonise other planets and create an interstellar civilisation.

How about the option where THEY pay for it then?

Funny how THAT isn't an option.

And the answer is simple ... 37 Trillion dollars in debt. You can't keep throwing money away and expect a money tree to grow in your backyard. ESPECIALLY when the money ISN'T YOURS.

Time for some people to grow the ♥♥♥♥ up and realize you can only spend so much of other people's money before there is no more.

Anyone who is against Trump cutting the budget doesn't belong touching my tax dollars. I know what being in debt means.

Originally posted by Gracey Face:

Originally posted by Santa Klaus:

MAGA loves Trump because he's going to get NASA to start landing on the moon again and land on Mars for the first time, just like they did in his first term!

MAGA also loves Trump because he's cutting money to that 'woke communist queer' organisation called NASA to stop them 'turning space gay'!

There is no contradiction there at all, it all makes perfect sense!! /s

There actually is no contradiction though. MAGA is made of more than one person, with more than one set of priorities. However even if it was a monolith there still wouldn't be a contradiction as huge amounts of NASA's budget are simply wasted. NASA could cut the waste and still actually provide space exploration services. They won't, of course, because the waste (and more importantly the waste getting into people's pockets behind the scenes) is the point of the organisation.

Originally posted by Gracey Face:

Originally posted by Arvaos:

Why is Trump so focused on cutting funding to space exploration? Dozens of future missions will be cancelled because of these cuts.

Because historically NASA has never provided anything of value. Every supposed valuable contribution from "NASA" actually came from another source, and now NASA cannot even effectively provide the main thing it is known for, space exploration, as competitors do it better.

Right now NASA is a black hole. NASA has always been a black hole really. For example Peter the Dolphin, where in the 1960's NASA spent a couple of million dollars to fund a team of researchers getting high in an Italian mansion while watching a woman have sex with a dolphin, because that will somehow apparently teach us to understand alien speech.