Post #2300634
2026-04-04 20:57 UTC
@az@scorpinc.social
Remember Artemis II came about because first term Trump wanted to relieve his youth by putting people back on the moon.
So NASA hand to cancel a whole heap of actual science programs, learning about the earth, planets, our solar system and universe to make a bus to take meat to the moon for TV.
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@adityakhanna@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-05 15:38
@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au @az@scorpinc.social I thought your comment was half-baked, but no you're entirely correct. They're literally dismantling all of NASA to, and this is a quote from the funding request: "to beat China"
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@pfriedma@pfedi.pfriedma.org 2026-04-06 04:50
@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au It's more accurate to say that Trump didn't cut it along with other things. It's not like this was a Trump project though SLS was mandated by Congress in 2011 to replace the Shuttle and lunar exploration was always part of the design parameters for the spacecraft. @az@scorpinc.social