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In a joint statement, every living former head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate SMD — the agency's top science leadership position — has condemned the White House's proposed 47% cuts to #NASA science activities in the White House’s fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget proposal: https://www.planetary.org/press-releases/nasa-science-chiefs-letter-press-release

What could possibly go wrong?
#NASA und andere denken über #Atomkraft auf dem Mond nach.
(Menschen, oder die Kunst, unbewohnbare Himmelskörper noch unbewohnbarer zu machen.)

USA planen Atomkraftwerke auf dem Mond - geht das überhaupt?
Die NASA plant, einen Atomreaktor auf dem Mond zu errichten. Laut Medienberichten werden die Pläne in den USA konkreter. Wie realistisch ist das und wie würde solch ein Atomkraftwerk auf dem Mond aussehen?

The details of the FY 2026 #NASA Budget Request are in: https://www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budget-request/ (May 30 documents) - and they are as devastating as feared. Lowlights - there are no highlights - are discussed by
https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.bsky.social/post/3lqg6n4pdrc2h
https://bsky.app/profile/jtuttlekeane.bsky.social/post/3lqg7zzfgo224
https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolicyonline.bsky.social/post/3lqg6tjfthf2a
https://bsky.app/profile/carlrodriguez.bsky.social/post/3lqg7nttoek2c
https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolicyonline.bsky.social/post/3lqg7lr5kgh27
https://bsky.app/profile/leighfletcher.bsky.social/post/3lqg5x3if6s2i
https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolicyonline.bsky.social/post/3lqgagt4g6q2a
https://bsky.app/profile/spacetides.bsky.social/post/3lqg6eapuws2l
https://bsky.app/profile/jfoust.bsky.social/post/3lqg2wsbf7s2k
https://bsky.app/profile/tedpavlic.bsky.social/post/3lqg4ccpgnc25
https://bsky.app/profile/ohdearz.bsky.social/post/3lqgdmenyj22c4
https://bsky.app/profile/interplanetary.bsky.social/post/3lqgc5xvny22s
and in the articles https://spacenews.com/nasa-budget-would-cancel-dozens-of-science-missions-lay-off-thousands/ and https://www.science.org/content/article/dozens-active-and-planned-nasa-spacecraft-killed-trump-budget-request.
The NSF Budget Request is at least as disastrous:
https://bsky.app/profile/kgandersen.bsky.social/post/3lqg6c5nnas2h
https://bsky.app/profile/dangaristo.bsky.social/post/3lqg43xmdws2r
https://bsky.app/profile/carlrodriguez.bsky.social/post/3lqg6icalsc2t
https://bsky.app/profile/thirstygecko.bsky.social/post/3lqg6mojywk2s

"NASA Pulls Back From Promise to Host Major Climate Change Reports, Citing Legal Loophole"
#Nasa #Climate #ClimateChange

NASA Pulls Back From Promise to Host Major Climate Change Reports, Citing Legal Loophole - Inside Climate News
Earlier this month, the agency said it would work to re-host information from a federal website that went dark. Now it says it will no longer do so.

Come on #NASA, can we not get a B ship together and send it to Mars yet?
Tell them B stands for Billionaires...

Netflix teams up with #NASA to show live rocket launches and spacewalks https://www.theverge.com/news/695342/nasa-plus-netflix-partnership

'Two Worlds, Two Analemmas' From the #NASA_App :
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250621.html

Pretty interesting piece on how the #NASA proposed butget cuts (and the overall political mess in the US) affects #ESA.

What happens to Europe’s space ambitions if NASA cuts joint missions
Experts tell Euronews Next that if the US Congress passes the proposed NASA budget cuts, the EU-US relationship will never be able to go back to the way it was.

My removal from #nasa #nyc continued afoot.
I haven’t said much of it here — but my competitive grant proposals (nasa scientists get funded this way since full cost accounting hit in 2004) have been chosen, but not funded.
There is no grant money to distribute. Folks in the know have seen that - ROSES, the acronym for research opportunities in science, does not have a 2025 call and the 2024 chosen post January 2025 don’t have money getting distributed.
If I cannot get proposals funded I will be in the same situation as every other soft money researcher.
So the soft RIF is coming for me and 1000’s of others.

Zwei wichtige #Satellitenmissionen der #NASA zur Überwachung von #CO2 und #Pflanzenwachstum

More press on the fate of #nasa in #nyc #doge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/nyregion/nasa-office-columbia-seinfeld-toms-restaurant.html

It's so very lonely, you're 19 and 23 light-hours from home…
#NASA to silence #Voyager social media accounts • The Register
https://share.google/DxdXvopuOs2zSLiZU

Some reporting on #nasa getting the #doge in #nyc
https://www.fastcompany.com/91333946/this-iconic-nasa-office-changed-climate-science-forever-doge-plans-to-kill-it
I put up some history here in happier times.
https://fediscience.org/@atthenius/110991531387943903

The final slides from the #NASA disaster press conference by the Planetary Society. The briefing is being recorded; at https://www.planetary.org/articles/nasa-2026-budget-proposal-in-charts the various charts are already up. 3/3

Letter from the House Democrats to the new interim #NASA administrator observing "a fringe, extremist ideology emanating from the White House Office of Management and Budget" and expressing "nothing but contempt for its goal of dismantling our nation’s space agency": https://democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/SST RM Lofgren and Foushee - Letter to Interim Administrator Duffy - FY 25 Impoundments - 7.16.25.pdf

❤️ Hope you have a wonderful #MothersDay ❤️
🙏 #nasa #landsat 🙏

More slides from the Planetary Society presser about the destruction of #NASA by the White House. 2/3

Sister, seems like we were all afraid you wouldn’t survive your first winter inside
But you thrived
And now, I hear maybe you are moving to Central Park - pretty swank
See you soon
👋 ❤️ 🌖 🌳
#nasa #MoonTree #nyc #nasagiss
https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/nasa-stem-artemis-moon-trees/

This is the non-emotional (!) version of what the Planetary Society thinks about the #NASA FY 2026 Budget Request ... from an ongoing online press conference.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
N.A.S.A. feat. David Byrne, Chali 2na, Gift of Gab & Z‐Trip:
🎵 The People Tree
#NASA #DavidByrne #Chali2na #GiftofGab #ZTrip