Pretty sure it takes a whole lot longer than a year to build a rocket.
This is a Biden rocket if anything.
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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 months ago
Meh, I’ll skip this Trump admin propaganda show.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This moon program is supposed to be a step of the larger manned Mars program, which started during Obama. So t
Then IIRC Trump wanted to skip to Mars, despite reducing NASA funding and causing leadership issues in the agency during his first term.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 months ago
First of all, Trump’s been talking about a return to the moon since his first term almost a decade ago.
Second, the rocket is one thing, the stated goals of the agency are another. They’re declaring the plan is a permanent human presence on the moon.
Bacano@lemmy.world 2 months ago
expensive propaganda show
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He’ll definitely take credit, but he also tried to cut the budget for NASA. Congress insisted.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 months ago
He, and the GOP controlled congress, successfully cut budget for NASA an laid of tons of its staff, and he also insisted on launching new moon missions which currently isn’t even viable and Artemis II is nothing but a little airshow as they make a loop around in a big circle before returning.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
…senate.gov/…/science-survives-existential-threat…
www.congress.gov/crs-product/R43419
ourplnt.com/budget-of-nasa-year-by-year/
Don’t get me wrong. I still haven’t found a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the GOP. It’s more likely that Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Airbus, et. al. reminded then who’s writing the checks to PACs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program
The Artemis program infrastructure is mostly stuff advanced by Obama and Biden era Congresses and Administrations.
The loop is a well precedented procedure for testing components that have not been used for a mission before. They did the same for the Apollo program.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 months ago
My apologies, I was unaware that the original 24% cut was eventually rejected.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Have you seen the fucking 'Murica ads before launch? They literally justified and propagated US Exceptionalism by name and talked about how all of this (which they were at least nice enough to mention was a collab with ~50 other countries) creates jobs in America.
It was a god damn propaganda show.