Capitol Hill ist voller Gespräche über den „Athena“-Plan für die NASA | Es wurde von Jared Isaacman entwickelt und zielt darauf ab, die Raumfahrtbehörde wieder in die Lage zu versetzen, „das nahezu Unmögliche zu erreichen“, wobei der Schwerpunkt darauf liegt, bei der bemannten Weltraumforschung weltweit führend zu sein, die Weltraumwirtschaft anzukurbeln und ein Kraftmultiplikator für die Wissenschaft zu werden
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/capitol-hill-is-abuzz-with-talk-of-the-athena-plan-for-nasa/
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Not to be a Debbie downer but isn’t this exactly the type of policy and capability that was just gutted from NASA? And FY2026 budget proposal has even worse in store for space and science?
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With what money will all these wonders be achieved?
All fluff unless you give them the budget and staff they need for it.
Where all the people responding to me a few weeks ago saying he wouldn’t slash and burn the agency through privatization? Get absolutely f’d
The one accidentally good pick this administration made we can’t have because the administration is so openly corrupt and full of climbers all looking to expand their little fiefdoms.
In related news, Jared Isaacman outlines new „Athena“ plan gutting current NASA initiatives and replacing them with corruption and grift.
Sounds like there’s a power struggle in the white house – two guys wanting two different directions for NASA. One wants it to become a space intelligence agency, the other wants it to return it to its traditional role as a civilian science agency.
NASA isn’t about science anymore, instead it will focus on money.
The national deficit is likely going to be over 40 trillion by the end of 2025. It is going up under Trump faster than any time in US history. The interest payments alone will be the most expensive thing the government is paying for, with interest only per year exceeding our military budget. NASA is a very small expenditure but this proposal is not possible without taxing billionaires.
Sounds like it will need a whole lot of funding instead of getting cuts. And maybe restore funding to research across the board while we are at it
Lofty plans and ideals having just seen your budget gutted and entire organisation undermined.
What made him write a 64 page document. Must be unusual for a prospective political appointee to do that. Mostly because they typically don’t have 64 pages of thoughts. But also because it might get leaked like this
Maybe we can re-hire all the people that left for the private sector, Europe, and Asia, as consultants?
we’ve been here before so many times, haven’t we? So much wasted effort and treasure, not to mention careers, because whatever current administration keeps shifting the goals
At some point we have lost our will to be aspirational. I do not see any such motivation from any of the three private companies. All seem to lack real drive and imagination. Blue Origin functions more as a billionaires slush fund that a successful innovator at any level.
The other night I watched „The Martian“ again. That is what we once were, what we are meant to be.
But science is dying here in our country, AI won’t save it. The Chinese expect to land people on the moon before us. We can’t go to Mars without the moon first. Where are the dreamers? Gone. Neither of these men are. Is there a lesser of two evils? Doubtful in a Trump WH.
In a country that is actively dismantling higher education, abandoning basic scientific literacy, and discouraging immigration.
All on a reduced budget.
Lmao. Probably the funniest headline during the trump era.
This will never happen, *especially* under this administration. In NASA’s heyday, their funding was close to 3% of the nations GDP.
Hey with all the budget cuts and brain drain, EVERYTHING is near impossible.