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    Mars Tafts reacted to losgatos_dale's post in the thread It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch with Like.

    An honest examination of the requested budget will show you that Webb is NOT facing a 20% cut to actual operating expenses. For example...

    Feb 23, 2025
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    Mars Tafts reacted to Classical Motion's post in the thread It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch with Like.

    I was drafted when I was a kid. My first experience with a gov agency. Excluding the DMV. Later I worked for a company whose bread and...

    Feb 23, 2025
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    Mars Tafts reacted to Startseq's post in the thread It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch with Like.

    I would love to see the budget to look at how the $317m is to be spent. Something tells me that with an annual "lottery win" of that...

    Feb 23, 2025
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    Mars Tafts reacted to Startseq's post in the thread It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch with Like.

    And yes - the SLS project is sinful. What a waste!

    Feb 23, 2025
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    Mars Tafts reacted to LemmyCaution's post in the thread It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch with Like.

    In view of NASA having sunk 24 billion dollars into the development of the Space Launch System and has effectively nothing to show for...

    Feb 23, 2025
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    Mars Tafts reacted to Moonwatcher's post in the thread It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch with Like.

    Considering that the JWST was 10X overbudget and likely should have been cancelled, astronomers should be looking at the glass as being...

    Feb 23, 2025
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    Mars Tafts reacted to Dave's post in the thread This Week In Space podcast: Episode 147 — Not As They Seem with Like.

    What truly would have been a surprise would be to see one of the whistleblowers on your program. They must have been busy. No...

    Feb 9, 2025
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    Mars Tafts reacted to alanm232's post in the thread Trump wants the US to land astronauts on Mars soon. Could it happen by 2029? with Like.

    I would love to see astronauts labd on Marss, and return if they want by the time frame.

    Feb 3, 2025
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    Mars Tafts replied to the thread Trump wants the US to land astronauts on Mars soon. Could it happen by 2029?.

    So with all due respect what has the German Aerospace Center (DLR) launched into space since the V2 that makes them experts on human...

    Feb 3, 2025
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    Mars Tafts replied to the thread Scientists turn 3 years' worth of solar flares into audible sound (video).

    How about a link? https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2024/12/See_and_hear_three_years_of_solar_fireworks

    Jan 13, 2025
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    Mars Tafts replied to the thread The fastest-spinning 'vampire star' we know of is shrinking. Soon, it will explode.

    "Soon" and 100,000 years are mutually exclusive terms.

    Jan 10, 2025

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