1mo ago

White House Aims To Halt Fantastical NASA Missions Across Solar System

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Forbes…
Fantastical
- while it is possible they changed the headline, the word is not in the 24 hour old snapshot: https://archive.is/cKdl5 and this thread is 3 hours old
  
  It does appear in the body of the article but in what I read as a positive usage
  the New Horizons spacecraft that aced a close approach with Pluto while sending back fantastical images of the otherworldly orb and its moons
  But adding it to the title does seem to make it into a derogatory use.
Luckily there's still ESA and CNSA, and I think India and Japan(?) have both been stepping up their space programs recently.
And I bet with NASA being gutted other agencies will want to try for the spot as the world's leading space agency, like what NASA once was. It would be a huge boon for local industry.