Investing in Space: NASA’s months of reckoning

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The signature of the letter, Titled Voyager DeclarationEncourage the US leadership not to implement “harmful” interruptions and disagreement “non -strategic personnel discounts, to restrict research projects and to cancel contracts, and to participate in international tasks or assignments that the Congress has already financed. Due to a wider White House pushing to reduce the federal labor force, NASA is not a list of small objections that emerged in a wider period of uncertainty.

NASA spokesman Bethany Stevens said in a statement with e-mail, “NASA will never compromise security. Any discount, including our current volunteer discount, will be designed to maintain critical roles in terms of security.” He said. “The truth is that President Trump proposed billions of dollars for NASA science and made a commitment to conveying our scientific achievements. In order to ensure the delivery of NASA to the American people, we are constantly evaluating life cycles, not to maintain outdated or lower priority tasks.”

Tumult, NASA Monday announced Makenzie Lystrup, which will end its two -year mission as the Goddard Space Flight Center Director on August 1st. It is not the first loss of the agency’s senior ranks in recent months: Laurie Leshin resigned In June, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is from the Director Post. And more outlets may come: at the beginning of the month, Politico reported The separation of at least 2.145 senior level employees from NASA may serve in the basic task sets.

The first election of US President Donald Trump, Tech billionaire and Elon Musk All Jared Isaacman in May, after unexpectedly removed from the taken into consideration, NASA, which attracted attention for both his own achievements and important contracts against the US private field industry, remained without long -term leadership. Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was appointed to hold the castle as NASA’s temporary ruler this month.

Inevitably, there is even money. NASA made a budget of 24,875 billion dollars last year – under the first demand of 8.5% and 2% of the 2023 fund – under the Trump administration, in 2026, roughly struggled with a 25% budget flooring, but the US Assembly Assembly’s sub -committee pushed back to this deduction. If it entered into force, the Trump Financing of 18.8 billion dollars would be the smallest NASA budget mentioned on July 20 since the first crew’s first crew through Apollo 11 mission.

In a statement on Monday, the Trump administration “built on the legacy of Apollo 11” and NASA approved the initiatives and “the Americans aya – this time – to stay – and put the first boots on Mars” focused. Colonization of the Red Planet has been a voice of the US president since its return to the office from January and has been reiterating the ambitions of Musk at that time. The two have been separated with a explosive crack since then, but the dream of lowering the US astronauts to the Moon and Mars grasped the nation with 67% and 65% of the survey participants. A CBS News/Yougov SurveyV Now in favor.

• It is illegal to apply NASA cuts before giving green light to the congress budget: Democrats – The democrats in a home committee facing NASA’s budget wrote a letter to Sean Duffy, the new acting manager of the space agency, and that NASA’s budget will be “clearly illegal” to continue the building and labor changes before passing through Congress. – Reuters
• South Korea is trying to build a moon base until 2045 -Kore Aviation Administration said that South Korea wants to build a month base under the new long -term national space research road map in the next 20 years. Seoul also plans to develop a new generation of Lander until 2040.- Yonhap
• England can make a ‘great contribution’ to space sustainability, the report says -Britain, which is equipped with important investment and state support, may be a “responsible, intelligent and independent leader” in space sustainability, a new report that indicates the country’s space production, drug use and stem cell harvest opportunities. – Physics world
• How did Star Trek NASA help space services? – NASA’s first space shuttle called Enterprise had to be called the constitution before Star Trek fans intervened. – BBC will come
• Orius creates a gravity simulator to examine plant growth – The French company Orius built Gravilab, a simulator of gravity with two rotating axes, which will investigate how certain gravitational environments affect plant growth. – Horticulture
• Most Americans prefer to go to Mars, find a survey – A CBS News/Yougov questionnaire reveals that 65% of Americans support the idea of US astronauts going to Mars, while two -thirds of the respondents send a cosmonaut to rediscover the month. – CBS News

• Linde will increase the capacity of US air gas to serve the space sector -Industrial gas supplier Linde will build a new air -separation unit in Texas to increase its capacity and support the US space industry in line with two agreements to provide liquid oxygen and nitrogen for rocket offices. – Gas World
• Golden Dome Chef System Steps for delivery – General Michael Guetlein has put forward the US plans to bring an ambitious gold dome missile in three years. – Space News

• ROKET LAB Stock Rally Continues -The stocks listed in the United States of Rocket won more ground, Bank of America and Citi, high price targets between the positive aviation and defense sector market conditions. – Commitment
• Arangroup will support the production of Nikon Ultra large -scale components -Angroup and 3D metal printer manufacturer Nikon has established a partnership to support the output of ultra -large -scale components over 1 cubic meters through additional production. – Nikon
• SpaceX plans to explode rockets on Hawaii’s waters – The Federal Aviation Administration gave Elon Musk’s permission to explode SpaceX’s rocket ships on the protected waters of the Holy Mokumanamana Island. Guardian