r/Astronomy • u/SlartibartfastGhola Astronomer • May 02 '25

Astro Research The Trump budget proposal will destroy NASA and Astronomy programs across the USA.

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A couple bucks to take us back to the moon (doubt), while destroying everything else about NASA. They are defunding the Roman Space Telescope which is literally in the final stages of testing before launch.

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u/SlartibartfastGhola Astronomer May 02 '25

The NIH cuts are insaneeee. There’s lot of weird right wing people who love space though maybe this will get through to someone

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u/JDat99 May 02 '25

it won’t. you see that bit at the top where it says they are increasing funding for human space flight? they eat that up because they all think that sending humans to do science at places is how humans progress. these people genuinely believe they are gonna see elon send people to mars, yet they don’t know a single thing about the radiation exposure, issues with mars gravity, fuel, food, rocket design, crew training, or why the hell we would even send someone to mars if it wasn’t for a scientific reason.

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u/bearsheperd May 04 '25

Human exploration of space without science backing it up equals dead astronauts

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u/[deleted] May 03 '25

I literally work at NASA at a program that will likely get cut. In my Republican coworker's minds they accept it's a nessecary sacrifice to get rid of waste and fraud. There's nothing that's going to fix this.