This administration really hates Goddard Space Flight Center.

I hope we can save it.

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There was also the implication that Rawls was gay, so maybe as a gay man he understood the horrible impact of such a horrific slur.

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Do you mean east of the Mississippi? Because those of us west of it know this is coming. When we talk about the weather here in Denver it’s all about the lack of snow and rain and all the fires (they already have started, but have been small so far).

Holy hell is right.

He's not clever enough for that.

It’s the same on the Front Range. Water restrictions in Denver, plus I know of some smaller towns too.

Also, they really want to control what does get published.

The image has text that has a statement from the AAS followed by a quote from the President's 2027 Budget Request: The budget request also adopts a policy prohibiting the use of federal funds to pay for journal subscriptions and the publication of research results unless required or pre-approved: “In accordance with administration policy announced in the budget, NASA will follow new governmentwide grants guidance prohibiting the use of federal funds to pay for subscriptions to academic journals, as well as for the publication of research results that are not specifically required by federal statute or approved in advance by a federal agency. This policy preserves funds to support actual research by ensuring that the American taxpayer does not pay for the research, publication, and access to that research, essentially triple charging the public for the same product.”

I missed that the President's 2027 Budget Request includes a statement about not paying for the publication of science results. 🤦‍♂️

That's some serious Orwellian pretzel logic. Somehow publication costs are double-dipping and an extra expense to taxpayers? 🤦‍♂️

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The White House clearly put no thought into the mission cancellations. The list includes the MAVEN mission, which has already been lost and there’s no need to cancel. These cancellations are an insult, but so is the sloppy manner in which these cuts have been proposed.

I am not 100% convinced either.

One of the things that I hope we get from the CLIPS, as more missions successfully land and operate on the Moon, is more practical information on how to operate, day-to-day, in the lunar environment. As much as we learned from Apollo, there's still so much we don't know.

Moon's first-ever radio telescope ready for the dark side Radio astronomers like a bit of peace and quiet, so they're sending an historic first radio telescope to the Moon. To block out Earthside radio signals, the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment (...

Great question. Hence my caveat.

But we are sending a radio telescope to the Moon, so maybe they will learn a lot about this soon.

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All of this is why I think a radio telescope on the Moon might be the first one to be built.

Of course, for all I know, there could be large issues with that idea too.

Space is hard, which is part of what makes it so exciting.

You said another key word that makes the lunar version harder: "replaced". Replacement and maintenance is another area of lunar operations that I think need even more research.

Yep, and there are a number of us working on it.

How does that wavelength of optics perform when there’s dust on the optics? There’s going to be lots of lofted dust from the building process, and we still struggle with mitigation. But if the instrument isn’t that sensitive to some dust on the optics it might be workable.

When the Earth, the whole Earth, is too bright and interrupting your work. #astronautproblems #ArtemisII

Look, I don't care if it's the boring stuff, like admin work or fortran library setup or lab equipment calibration. As long as it sounds like it was transmitted from the Moon, with some version of capcom, then that'll be great. Soothing in these troubled times.

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I am really enjoying listening to a feed of real time science, with the whole radio sound and terminology. Very soothing.

#ArtemisII

When this mission is over I need to recreate this feed somehow. Have some fellow scientists broadcasting their play by play of their science.

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What's going on? A reissue? Please don't tell me it's the nth anniversary. I don't want a reminder of how old I am.

There are many words from Shakespeare and Quixote and the Buddha and others that still are true and we have no better way to express. I think that's amazing. It's an emotional connection to our past and probably to our future.

On the positive side, I think it says that those expression of awe still move us and are still valid today. As much as we have changed, we haven't completely changed. And maybe we just don't have better words than what Sagan used. That's okay. The words still ring true and deep.

In a former life, I worked in the Finance Industry for 12 years (incl. in financial planning), and want to share a short thread on this stupid company's idea as well, with that perspective.

If I was a journo reporting on this company, I would follow the money, cause things don't add up .....

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Satellite mirror plans could disrupt sleep and ecosystems worldwide, scientists say Letters to US agency raise concerns over tech firm’s plans to use reflective satellites and expand numbers in low Earth orbit

Back in the '90s, when I first heard discussion about plans for solar reflectors in space, it was obvious then that there are so many things wrong with these idea.

I don't know where to start, so for now I will say: This is such a bad idea.

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Trump is so desperate to recreate the past: measles, polio, black lung, acid rain, barbaric prisons, racism, sexism, tariffs, robber barons, etc.

It’s so regressive and unimaginative. It would be merely pathetic if it wasn’t so destructive.

For years I told my Catholic friends that the right-wing Protestants would eventually turn on Catholics. Just look at how they treated Kennedy when he became president. And all of the anti-Catholic conspiracy theories of the 20th century.

Impact Flash! - NASA Science You and your telescope can join a global network of amateur astronomers documenting meteors hitting the moon.

If you have one of the robotic telescopes, even a small one, then you have the chance to participate in the Artemis II science program by looking for impact flashes on the Moon.

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NASA begins building nuclear-powered Dragonfly drone for 2028 launch to Saturn moon Titan "This milestone essentially marks the birth of our flight system."

And assembly of Dragonfly has begun!

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What an exciting way to the end of the day, in the large conference room with my space exploration colleagues watching the Artemis II launch!

And now I find my bluesky feed filled mostly with Artemis II posts, and not the usual nightmares. I will enjoy this while it lasts!