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While you seem to imply NASA is wasting money how many legacy projects did that Voyager era budget have to support? Oh yeah, close to zero. When a company imple
by _DeadFred_ 2y ago
While you seem to imply NASA is wasting money how many legacy projects did that Voyager era budget have to support? Oh yeah, close to zero. When a company implements an ERP system, a HR system, etc. the IT budget tends to increase to more than before.
How many weather satellites did NASA operate during the Voyager program verses now?
How many Landsats like Landsat 8 and 9 now https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/projects/hls https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/projects/hls
Anything like GRACE and GRACE-FO?
Perseverance rover? https://phys.org/news/2025-04-perseverance-rover-witnesses-martian-devil.html https://phys.org/news/2025-04-perseverance-rover-witnesses-m...
Were Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) missions ongoing?
Anything like the Juno project around Jupiter?
Complex projects like OSIRIS-REx?
Telescopes matching the ongoing requirements of James Webb Space Telescope?
Were there Psyche style missions ongoing? https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/psyche/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/psyche/
- rayiner 2y agoI’m not implying any of that. I’m simply pointing out that when you tell people “budget for X was cut” they think that means absolute terms, or inflation adjusted. They don’t think that you mean that it wasn’t growing fast enough relative to some perceived needs.