Das Weiße Haus kann versuchen, das Wissenschaftsbudget der NASA um 50 Prozent zu senken. „Es wäre nichts weniger als ein Aussterben-Ereignis für die Weltraumwissenschaft.“
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/white-house-may-seek-to-slash-nasas-science-budget-by-50-percent/
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How about we slash subsidies to space x by 50 per cent instead
Really? That would mean less business for Musk.
Got to pay for those tax cuts for the rich somehow.
Ket-boy will explore space, who needs exploration that benefits all, when you can give it to your friend?
The White House budget proposal for NASA includes includes a 50% cut to the Science Mission Directorate’s budget. This is the program that runs all planetary science, Earth sciences, astrophysics and heliophysics missions for NASA. The budget is not final of course, as it still needs to be negotiated with Congress, but it does show what the Trump’s administration goals are.
As Eric Berger wrote in this article, the Science Mission Directorate is responsible for many of NASA’s greatest achievements in the last years, such as continuous robotic presence on Mars, the Mars helicopter, JWST, New Horizons flying by Pluto, the Cassini mission that discovered water plumes on Enceladus, the asteroid sample return mission, Europa Clipper, the recent commercial lunar landings, and more.
What gets me angry is how during the election we constantly heard that Trump was somehow the better candidate for space. People constantly argued that by removing the bloat from NASA and canceling SLS and other programs, this would leave more money for science missions. This could not be further from the truth. This administration doesn’t care about science.
Cutting NASA’s budget in half would be taking 12.5 billion out of a nearly 7 TRILLION dollar budget. That’s less than .2 percent of our yearly budget.
I think we can look elsewhere for cuts and leave the people at NASA alone.
Edit: I was off on an order of magnitude. Still, leave them alone and look elsewhere for cuts.
Naturally, Berger doesn’t mention Musk or SpaceX’s involvement in this once in the article.
Don’t worry we’re going to spend 10x that directly funding Elon, the worlds biggest welfare queen.
Wait so are they literally removing funding from EVERYTHING so they can give tax cuts to billionaires?
Bet Buzz Aldrin is happy about that endorsement right about now.
But hey, r/spacexmasterrace amiright? So glad that humanities future in the stars is all being put on the shoulders of a ketamine addicted Nazi with 100 bastard children.
Understand this. This administration is hell bent on destroying the federal government. On liquidating it and selling its pieces off to the highest bidder. On privatizing every service and agency. This includes NASA. They mean to burn it down and hand over the charred remains to Musk.
This is only the beginning.
Just in time for Apophis, glad we will probably cut funding for you know, monitoring that situation
Why not decrease the US military budget by a measly 1.5% instead? Funny how republicans will happily eliminate education, parks, environmental efforts, and science programs but would cut off their own hands before even incrementally decreasing money going into the military industrial complex.
Right as an asteroid is about to swing past Earth. We are living in a farce.
I frequently both this sub and the NASA one and I’ve been wondering why there hasn’t been more talk about things that musk, doge and especially what Vivek said a few months ago. I’ve been wondering if it’s to keep politics out of it, or just that it was too crazy to be actually put into action, so denial kicked in.
I’m scared of NASA being dismantled, patent and science stolen and exceptional scientists stolen and lost forever.
/norwegian that loves space and NASA.
Well, that’s ir for NASA. Waiting for that Chinese Uranus/Neptune orbiter and Mars sample return. I hope the Titan quadcopter Dragonfly can be the last hurray of American Planetary Science before fading into obscurity.
How about just cutting our defense budget down to five times the next ten countries…
If you voted for Trump and are now surprised by this, you just got what you deserved, and I wish you even worse.
Slash slash slash. Then tax cut for the rich, so they can buy gold toilets for their survival bunkers (whilst the economy tanks).
They’re after our pension funds..
Then space x takes over and gets the funding.
All according to plan.
You need to convince Trump that if he cuts NASA funding, that Putin will colonize the moon before the US. It doesn’t have to be true or rational; you just need to stoke his desire to take over everything. And he loves nothing more than “real estate” – the only topic he feels knowledgeable about.
BRO QUIT TAKING STUFF FROM THE PEOPLE, SCIENTIST, DOCTORS AND TEACHERS
IF I GOTTA HEAR ABOUT THESE FUCKING TROGLODYTES STOMPING HUMAN PROGRESS INTO THE GROUND ONE MORE TIME, I’MA HAVE A MENTAL BREAKDOWN
Space is one of my personal interests and if it gets turned into a business like everything else that would be devastating.
Well yea, they wanna privatize and give money to SpaceX.
… I feel the need to point out that this is **literally** the plot of the back half of *Don’t Look Up*. A moron billionaire with the ear of the president convinces the government to dump all of their space money into his untested rocket tech. I can’t remember how that decision ends though…
Republicans can never be trusted — with literally anything.
Anyone who believes Trump is capable of doing anything good is thoroughly deluded. But hey at least he’s not a black woman and price of eggs is affordable again.
The NASA science budget is already minuscule. He’s just doing this because he doesn’t like NASA’s stance on climate science.
He said he wants to plant a flag on Mars. I don’t think this is a sign of giving up on science. There has been a lot of bloat and added funding that went literally nowhere that Biden admin did and he’s basically sorting through that to try to eliminate unnecessary spending. Similar to Medicaid and stuff, it’s not being cut, the unnecessary and incorrect payments are stopping.
It’s not a war on science. It will sort itself out. Also consider that (even before being bffs with elon) he is pro privatized space travel and exploration. So I can see more private contracts being dolled out while federal spending gets trimmed.
Slash budget, sell data and equipment for pennies on the dollar to corporations, set up massive research grants to private companies to use as they see fit (and sell back the research to the government), continue gritting, monopolize information in the hands of massive corporations and their oligarch owners.
I’d be ok with this if they were also decreasing the Department of Defense’s budget by 50%.
But oddly, I haven’t heard anything about the DoD. It’s as if some people need the money coming from that department, which is about 30 times bigger than NASA’s budget.
They juat want to privatize space science , not end it. Too many people voted for enshittification
Of course, so Musk can privatize and profit from it.
The Christians will love it. They already think most of this science stuff is of the devil anyway, or made up. And Christian conservatives are running the show right now, so the people won’t resist this enough to make it not happen unfortunately. Stop all progress, quit asking questions, why do we need to learn new things? That’s just the woke agenda. 🙄
Much of that would be the infamous SLS/Orion funding, that has sucked dry the science budget for way too long.
During the first term of Donald Trump he tried to cut Earth science every year, but the rep dominated congress put it back in every time. Planetary science was never on the chopping block. I doubt it will be this time.
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|[DoD](/r/Space/comments/1j5oket/stub/mgip1za „Last usage“)|US Department of Defense|
|[ESA](/r/Space/comments/1j5oket/stub/mgiolld „Last usage“)|European Space Agency|
|[FAA](/r/Space/comments/1j5oket/stub/mgimu11 „Last usage“)|Federal Aviation Administration|
|[JWST](/r/Space/comments/1j5oket/stub/mgih72m „Last usage“)|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1j5oket/stub/mgimu50 „Last usage“)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[SMD](/r/Space/comments/1j5oket/stub/mgimj3o „Last usage“)|Science Mission Directorate, NASA|
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|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1j5oket/stub/mgioqkv „Last usage“)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
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Don’t worry, I’m sure once Elon finds out about this he’ll come to the rescue. He loves NASA!
Private space corporations are a mistake.
If they flourish, your descendants will die toiling on a mining colony because CyberMusk3000 decided to turn off the oxygen, or due to safety violations.
Isn’t the whole point of Elon Musk’s politics and SpaceX supposedly „about making human civilization multi-planetary“ and going to Mars? And now the Trump administration wants to cut the NASA program that runs the Perseverance rover, that’s currently on Mars. I hate to quote Sam Altman but he really is right about Musk. „Elon wants to save the world, but only when *he* is the one doing the saving.“
Russia still trying to win the space race, I see.
Let this issue be the one that burns buildings. Viva la revolution!
Is there any doubt that the „savings“ from gutting NASA will be fully reappropriated by welfare queen elon? It’s wild that we’ve never seen such rampant and blatant cronyism in our lifetimes, and yet the Cons are suddenly fervent supporters of the elites and authoritarianism.
Oh no, president musk wants to cut funds for NASA and give the money to SpaceX?