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Or until you know… some future President restores the NASA budget?
by deadbabe 1y ago
Or until you know… some future President restores the NASA budget?
- bryanlarsen 1y agoThe budget will shutdown many projects that have been running for decades. Those projects generally can't be restarted.
- deadbabe 1y agoSo we will see the end of James Webb telescope?
- whatshisface 1y agoIt's possible. It depends on how deep the cuts are and how much freedom scientists have in choosing. Scientists would prefer to save the major data collection projects, but the political side has stated a preference for manned exploration. What we know will be lost is all of the less politically armed but more useful small projects, including the ones that are used to study our home planet.
- deadbabe 1y agoWell, manned exploration does sound pretty cool though.
- bryanlarsen 1y agoSounds like a good summary of the Trump administration -- fund the high profile, low bang for buck projects and cut the boring high bang for buck projects.
- deadbabe 1y agoPutting people on a moon isn’t low bang for the buck IMO.
- bryanlarsen 1y ago> $200B to put a man on the moon vs < $100M to put a robot on the moon.
- deadbabe 1y agoIt is not that massive of a cost. $3 to $4 billion to put men on the moon. And if you’re doing it regularly you can eventually make optimizations to cost and bring that price down at least to 10%. But we’re out of practice. It’s been almost 60 years.
- nashashmi 1y agoThat will be a new NASA institution. The old NASA will be gone.
- LarsDu88 1y agoBut of course by then the 19 in flight space probes would have floated into the abyss of space costing even more money to redo those project from scratch...