We’re supposed to be very concerned that the 60-year financial boondoggle called NASA is finally showing signs of coming to an end:
NASA had a good run. But it is clear after the Agency town hall today that NASA’s role as the global preeminent Space Agency is over. Despite a proposed 50% cut to the Science budget, agency leadership is inexplicably moving forward with the President’s budget request. This has already led to the cancellation of dozens of projects and Missions as well as the displacement of thousands of employees. There is no coherent long-term vision, no credible plan to achieve the priorities the agency claims to uphold under such drastic financial constraints, and no meaningful advocacy from leadership to push back against the cuts. The future of NASA’s scientific mission is being gutted in plain sight.
My guess is that they want to wind it down so they can claim it’s a) no big deal and b) ancient history once all of the fakery that was perpetrated by NASA and in its name begins to come out. So much of “modernity” is simply false that it will more than boggle even what passes for the average NPC’s mind.