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minus-squareAnIndefiniteArticlelinkfedilink5•edit-28 days agoScience Mission Directorate cut by 50%? It’s not the people building the rockets getting cut the most. It’s the people studying the planets and responsible for understanding and protecting their state before human development s’encubre.
minus-square@seeking_perhaps@mander.xyzlinkfedilink4•8 days agoYes and it covers way more missions than most people would think, like the Mars rovers, all of our sample return efforts, etc. It would all but kill US planetary science.
minus-squareAnIndefiniteArticlelinkfedilink1•8 days agoChanging our space program from that of scientific exploration and understanding our neighbors to one of colonization and conquest.
Science Mission Directorate cut by 50%?
It’s not the people building the rockets getting cut the most.
It’s the people studying the planets and responsible for understanding and protecting their state before human development s’encubre.
Yes and it covers way more missions than most people would think, like the Mars rovers, all of our sample return efforts, etc. It would all but kill US planetary science.
Changing our space program from that of scientific exploration and understanding our neighbors to one of colonization and conquest.