Scientific American: Trump versucht, die MARS -Stichprobe der NASA abzusagen – und Wissenschaftler sind empört
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-budget-calls-for-stranding-nasas-mars-samples-on-the-red-planet/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKM1zlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETAzN014cXkySzVHTEFNS05QAR71U0ZAMj1yzzCwaCTkCrDlNgvfjU_sCscbfYTk1FUvlqkQWgBOQ-t1ltAKDg_aem_ufA-VYAsPv6VNewKWnwozw
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Why do we need a sample return when we could just send Trump there to taste it himself?
What? Trump wants to cancel the sample return and replace it with a crewed mission. That will cost ten to a hundred times as much and take decades. A crewed mission will likely be cancelled in a few years.
Just say there are precious minerals in them Martian hills and the mission will pay for itself.
No we’re not. MSR is a garbage mission. Other parts of the proposed NASA cuts are far more damaging. MSR is an ill-conceived mission concept that escaped being canceled by the Biden admin. but it was close. No surprise the next admin would axe it.
>on May 2 the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) dropped a budgetary bombshell, proposing to cut NASA’s top-line funding by a quarter, slash the space agency’s science budget by nearly half and entirely eliminate MSR. The cancellation is justified, the OMB document claims, because MSR is “grossly overbudget” and its goals of sample return will instead “be achieved by human missions to Mars.
Alright, so where is the funding for these human missions (plural) to Mars, Mr. Trump?
If they are only outraged now and over this, then they aren’t very clever scientists.
When you have no idea what science means and the value to humanity, you cancel it.