FY 2026 Budget Request - NASA
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Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request

Not only is Trump leveling science funding at NASA, like he did with the National Science Foundation, but look closely at the budget. Beginning next year at 800 million and by 2030, 3.5 billion (nearly 20% of its budget), NASA is required to work towards “Commercial Moon and Mars Infrastructure and Transportation”. The ultimate subsidy for the commercial space sector.

They also eliminated STEM engagement program, which provided funding for the next generation of scientists to participate in NASA opportunities. I can’t wait for all this greatness Trump has been preaching to arrive.

  • Doom@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I disagree. Completely.

    Large scale mining on another celestial body is similar to AI. It’s not actually gonna happen in our lifetime we’re not as close as we wanna believe.

    We are those people in the 1800s who think everyone would have jet cars and shit by the year 2000. Nobody is that close. Likely they’ll blow each other up and start fighting in space before anyone gets to mine.

    • scintilla@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      We could do space mining today if their was any incentive to do it. There just isn’t any reason to currently but if we start using fusion power (which China has made strides in recently) it would make a ton of sense to get He-3 on the moon.

      Hell I give it 20 years before a private company at the very least tries to move one of the really rare earth element rich asteoids into an orbit around earth. From the calculations I’ve seen we could technically do it with current rocket tech assuming proper planet alignment.

      • Doom@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        No we cannot you vastly over estimate the cost of bringing things in and out of orbit. Especially at the load it would need to be a financial incentive to create the infrastructure to do so regularly.

        I’d bet my balls we won’t mine shit in space for the rest of the 21st century