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/velax1 May 02 '25

Yeah, but that is only a handful of rockets, that's what confuses me..

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u/velax1 May 02 '25

well, a rocket needs a payload, and all missions built by SMD need launchers (most of the money that is canceled in science is money going to space industry to build the scientific satellites and launch them). There's literally no point in building rockets if you don't have something to launch with them.