Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push
Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push
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At least 2,145 senior-ranking NASA employees are set to leave under a push to shed staff, according to documents obtained by POLITICO — potentially spelling trouble for White House space policy and depriving the agency of decades of experience.
Handing the next century of space exploration to China, who is planning a sample return mission to Mars by 2028, land on the Moon by 2030, and construct a moon base by 2035.
Chinese moon base will send the chuds reeling
100% chance they'll just insist China is lying about it. They'll scream until they are blue in the face that China is just "faking" their moon base, even if it ends up being literally visible from earth with a telescope.
That'd be so fucking cool. Being able to just take a squizz at some dudes on the moon.
For real. At this rate America won't even get it's little lunar orbital in place on schedule meanwhile China is gonna be building a base. It's kinda pathetic.
Oh, Lunar Gateway is an even stupider project than that. It was only proposed because the SLS rocket that was planned to launch Orion capsules is too underpowered to put the overweight Orion capsules into lunar orbit. SLS can either launch flyby missions, or it can put Orion into that wacky halo orbit to dock with Gateway so crew can transfer to the Starship-derived lander.
SLS can't be made for higher performance because it was specifically planned to reuse space shuttle components. And that reuse was planned because it reduces R&D expenses for the defence contractors involved in the project - particularly Northrop Grumman and Boeing.