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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFinally something Trump did that I agree with - for real
To wit: proposing a significant increase in NASA's budget.
I've been in aerospace all my career. NASA has always struggled with $20bn +/- budgets for years - including during the shuttle era - and look at all they've done with it. Lots of research and space science. Think of the Mars missions, Jupiter, Pluto, solar probes, space telescopes - not to mention all of the stuff they're doing at installations all over the US - Stennis, Moffett, Langley, Goddard, JPL - the list goes on.
We can certainly argue the merits of moon vs. mars, how much private participation in US spaceflight there'l be, etc. But once new areas get funding, it's hard to pull them unless there's some gross issue.
The Pentagon has pissed away $20bn on single weapons systems that never came into use. NASA can do more with that kind of money.
jls4561
(1,257 posts)What does Trump want that money used for? He's not a friend of science.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)I don't doubt the NASA money is largely to help develop weapons for space.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Then he can claim to be a climate scientist. The smartest one who ever lived.
ooky
(8,924 posts)infullview
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HHS, medicare, housing, EPA, and SNAP food programs. I'm so happy that you appreciate that NASA will get more money.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)I am distressed over the programs he's cutting funds for. People are and should be what comes first. Cutting funds to food for children and the needy can't be allowed to happen. That is just one example.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)(Demos is the Greek root word that means People.)
CatMor
(6,212 posts)so loathed by the trumpsters.
Love your name, one of my favorite books.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)open mindedness. They're what DUers all have in common.
Since reading the book in college, then watching the film, I've wanted to use the Captain somewhere. But I was always Lefty, Snarknado, and a host of others. Seeing the number of intelligent posters here, I knew this would be appropriate. Thanks.
RockRaven
(14,974 posts)They are restricting more and more what NASA is allowed to do for themselves and forcing more and more contracting/outsourcing (I mean even more so/accelerated compared to the already present trend of the last 40 years). Trump has put NASA on an accelerated track to becoming an entity which only writes checks and does not build, own, or operate anything itself.
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Dawgman49
(226 posts)Hell spend it on the wall, so NASA can photo it from space