Well, FUCK. Here I was excited for my first grant as a faculty member…
“White House Withholds Funding for NASA Science Missions Despite Recent Budget Bill”
NASA has been forced to pause funds for Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other missions until further notice.
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gizmodo.com/white-house-...
Artemis II your ride to the moon has arrived.
NASA's Orion "Integrity" Capsule has rolled out from the Launch Abort System Facility (LASF), to the VAB at KSC for stacking atop the awaiting SLS rocket, ahead of launch early next year.
nsf.live/spacecoast
NASA is now at its lowest staffing levels since the dawn of the space age.
They are destroying our scientific institutions. It will get worse and more painful until we stop them.
The Voyager Declaration - I like the sound of that!
Support NASA and our real-life Starfleet officers by signing, calling your reps, and being a STEM champion locally and nationally.
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www.standupforscience.net/nasa-voyager...
🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.
Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
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🧵 OSIRIS-APEX is one of the missions at risk of cancellation. It's a VERY short sighted move since the it reuses the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft which is ALREADY spaceborne. Learn more about the mission & how you might help save it, here: www.talkingspaceonline.com/osiris-apex-...
There's a lot going on. Here's how I'm finding some joy atm: Practically everything in the sky has been seen before and/or will be seen again by humankind. That connection across humanity's history is wonderful.
#3I/ATLAS? That's ours and only ours. It's come to us now and we should cherish it.
It's not just #NIH. It's not just #NSF. It's not just #NASA.
The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US.
We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.
So Starship Ship 36 just detonated *before* the static fire test - fueled and waiting for the test. Looks like the top tank lets go and sets off the whole stack. It would be bad enough if it let go during the static fire test, but it just blew up. And it's cooking off the fuel tanks on the pad.
This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Man it really sucks when someone just takes your government funding away out of nowhere on a whim
Breaking News: President Trump plans to withdraw his nomination of Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and close associate of Elon Musk’s, who was on track to be the next NASA administrator.
Within Planetary Science, increased funding is requested for a new Mars initiative to provide lower-cost, competitively selected missions and instruments that address both human exploration and science objectives. These payloads will take advantage of the new Commercial Mars Payload Services established within ESDMD. The Lunar Discovery and Exploration Program will continue to develop scientific instruments for Artemis II and III missions and payloads for commercial delivery to the Moon via the Commercial Lunar Payload Services project, which has been transferred to ESDMD. NASA will terminate the Mars Sample Return mission and will further reduce the portfolio by halting progress on several other missions. Activities within Planetary Science Research, Venus and Mars Technology, and Radioisotope Power Systems are reduced, and will focus on high priority science investigations and technologies relevant to planned missions.
Here's their justification for Planetary Science cuts. It's all focused on the human spaceflight to the Moon and Mars. There is no interest in science.
This will be devastating if enacted.
This really is an extinction level event for NASA's science programs.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
Starship Flight 8 - Friday.
www.spacex.com/launches/mis...
Feeling alarmed by today's armageddon headlines?
🗞️"NASA makes 'emergency' decision as chances of 'city-destroying' asteroid hitting Earth rise to 1-in-43"
It's since dropped to a 1-in-48 chance & the🚨decision was just to use JWST to collect more data🤞🔭🧪
ℹ️: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/detai...
Today is NASA's Day Of Remembrance, a day to remember those who lost their lives in the pursuit of spaceflight.
It is also a reminder to remember the lessons we were taught the hardest way.
Loved the Pima Air & Space museum, Titan Missile Museum is in the area and worth a visit
#RIPPresidentCarter, traveling among the stars ✨
Being able to hear teenagers experience Interstellar for the first time and be as awestruck as I was 10 years ago certainly made my year
Beautiful morning at Winter Park yesterday
Airplane in the airport
If you're going to post space images, please post REAL ones. This kind of CG'd crap just makes things annoying. The actual Hubble image: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_N...
Very excited, fingers crossed for a good relight test! 🤞
Some of my favorite pictures of Lily
Steadily making progress on my #Space list: bsky.app/profile/did:...
