• Tony Bark@pawb.social
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    22 days ago

    So, is SpaceX just going to do all the infrastructure? Because this is just royally dumb.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    This deeply pisses me off. You have no idea how excited I am to go back to the moon and if that goes down the drain imma lose it.

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    From the article …

    NASA announced on Monday that it will be closing the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist; and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Twenty-three employees will be affected by the cuts,

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    A Republican voter told me Trump would be thrown out of office if America loses the space race to China. Whenever I need a half-correct monkey paw fortuneteller, I guess I know where to find one.

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    Oh! Oh! Can Canada get its aerospace engineers and industry back? We’ve been missing them ever since the Avro Arrow project got cancelled by American pressure and they all ended up in NASA.

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    “It’s one small step backwards for man, it’s”, scans notes looking for last section of speech. Shrugs. “I think that’s it folks. One small step backwards it is.”

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    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.