From Nick Allen at Telegraph:
US President-elect Donald Trump is set to slash Nasa’s budget for monitoring climate change and instead set a goal of sending humans to the edge of the solar system by the end of the century, and possibly back to the moon.
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According to Bob Walker, who has advised Mr Trump on space policy, Nasa has been reduced to “a logistics agency concentrating on space station resupply and politically correct environmental monitoring”.
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Its funding has gone up 50 per cent under President Barack Obama. At the same time Mr Obama proposed cutting support for deep space exploration by $840 million next year. More.
Well, if They’re out there, We’ll find them.
See also: Rob Sheldon on science and the US election: “Tell your European colleagues not to flee America, but instead emigrate here, because there probably will be a lot of job openings available.”
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