How President Trump could change NASA

[Admin]

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.