How President Trump could change NASA

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The new Trump administration could upend NASA's priorities, reshaping the Artemis moon program, climate science funding and the role of commercial space players.

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[Viking]

The moon and Mars missions will be give to Musk.

 

[penguin44]

They totally should. Look, I don;t like Musk and his personal policies and politics. However the man is brilliant and is on a great path with Falcon 9 and Starship.

NASA is a great agency and should continue as such. However NASA has proved many times that it cannot build and maintain a space program and launch vehicle. Shuttle, Ares, X33, Artemis. Gemini to Apollo was USAF and NASA ran the show.

 

[Viking]

The last Starship was a huge success, right?

 

[penguin44]

The last Starship was a huge success, right?

It was, since it was a test flight of a new version. You do know it's still in a test phase right?

 

[Hildy]

In general, manned missions will survive in some form and I suspect that the moon will be the target due to China.

My concern is science missions. The Europa Clipper and DAVINCI will probably be cancelled entirely along with smaller deep space missions. I doubt we'll see any new non-human missions to the moon or Mars.

Earth science missions will also suffer unless they deal with weather predictions.

 

[alanspurgeon]

Elon will get Mars and Bezos will get the moon and low earth orbit.

 

[penguin44]

In general, manned missions will survive in some form and I suspect that the moon will be the target due to China.

My concern is science missions. The Europa Clipper and DAVINCI will probably be cancelled entirely along with smaller deep space missions. I doubt we'll see any new non-human missions to the moon or Mars.

Earth science missions will also suffer unless they deal with weather predictions.

Well Clipper launched in October so that will continue. I don't think it will be cancelled.

 

[eltodesukane]

Why move Space Command from Colorado to Alabama?
What's already there in Alabama?

 

[COLGeek]

Why move Space Command from Colorado to Alabama?
What's already there in Alabama?

A large number of the Nation's space programs and even some NASA offices are located at Redstone Arsenal/Huntsville, AL.

 

[TRex]

I hope they cancel all funding for the monumental waste of money on global warming, or its stealthy moniker "climate change" (as though the climate hasn't been changing throughout earth's history!)
CO2 is not only vital for its well known roles as plant food and oxygen generation via photosynthesis. It has a largely unrecognized role as being responsible for the slowly continuous vertical convection of thermal energy from the earth's surface (where it absorbs solar radiation) up to the tropopause, beyond which this energy is radiated into outer space.
Without this convective thermal "resistance" provided by CO2 and other greenhouse gases, the surface of the earth would be much colder and unable to support life as we know it. Thus CO2 is largely responsible for the single most striking feature of earth's atmosphere--the critical warm layer of the troposphere, within which life can flourish.
Current atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are 1/10 or less than those encountered in geologic times, during which the earth was much greener and life was abundant. In fact, we're not that far from a cataclysmic lower bound, below which photosynthesis would be extinguished.
It's time to stop this politically driven, model-centric gravy train! John Von Neumann once commented about models, that "with four parameters I can draw an elephant, and with five, I can make it wiggle its trunk." Those of us who have worked with models in the real world have been humbled by their frequent abject failures to reflect reality.