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.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
My apologies, I was unaware that the original 24% cut was eventually rejected.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No apology necessary. What you said is exactly what Trump was trying to do. I believe turning NASA into an air circus is exactly the plan. I hope that plan fails.