Even as a triumphant moon flyby primes agency for a 2028 landing, Trump’s proposed budget cuts cast pall on US space program
Even as Integrity, the mission moniker for the Orion capsule of Artemis II, ascended into the heavens days ago, Donald Trump was announcing his intention to slash NASA’s budget by 23%, including a 46% cut for space science initiatives.
And the Artemis program that has run years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget offers no guarantees that the next, far harder stages will run as smoothly.
For real. A single person should not have enough money for their own goddamn space program. It’s ludicrous.
SpaceX isn’t the first company to be making rockets. Who do you think has been making NASA’s rockets? I’ll give you a hint: it’s not NASA.
And Elon started SpaceX way before me was the richest person in the world. You can hate Elon Musk. I’d even agree with your hate there. But to direct it at SpaceX and accuse them as just being a money-making-scheme for Elon is a little ridiculous.