r/Futurology • u/chrisdh79 • Mar 07 '25

Space White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent | "It would be nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/white-house-may-seek-to-slash-nasas-science-budget-by-50-percent/
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u/misterdudebro Mar 07 '25

Gee, I wonder which oligarch that owns a rocket and launches vehicles into space would want this? Like, who competes with NASA? HMMMMM.

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u/zach_dominguez Mar 07 '25

No way it's the one who just had a second rocket explode recently.

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u/et1975 Mar 07 '25

What does nasa have that competes with SpaceX? Musk is an ass, but you relied on Russians to get to and from space until Dragon came along. Nasa has become an administrative body long time ago thanks to decades of cuts.

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u/misterdudebro Mar 08 '25

They have an entirely different goal. SpaceX is a for-profit company, whereas NASA is a taxpayer-funded entity free to pursue scientific discoveries that are not directly linked to financial gain.

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u/et1975 Mar 08 '25

I'll let somebody else defend the long standing US tradition of public/private partnership.