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Inucune@lemmy.world 4 days agoNASA is too beholden to politics… You can’t do 7 year builds and missions when the Senate flips every 4 years and has to kill everything the other side did on principle that it has a D or R attached to it. Everything is political.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
<.< Legitimate question, what was the last thing each party killed that was put in place by the other party?
Inucune@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It is usually due to “budget cuts” as the easiest way to kill a project is to defend it. Juno Jupiter flyby Maven mission to mars New horizons kbo flyby Terra mission-earth science satellite Aqua mission -earth science satellite DSCOVR SLS-which may actually be a bad program but is a good example of the political issues with NASA vs senate.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 day ago
But Juno went to Jupiter?
Inucune@lemmy.world 1 day ago
These programs require continuous funding. The probe went to Jupiter. The scientist and listening stations back on earth still have to run to receive the data.