That outlook is pretty simplistic, looking at the history of NASA space science, in which virtually all successful missions were stretched out in development. Get a grip.
Gotta tell the administration that. They gave the Science Mission Directorate a budget increase. Oops. (But there is no question that this administration needs some education about the value of basic science.)
Well, no, that's precisely wrong about missions that are gone. JIMO is gone, as such, but Webb and TPF are quite alive, if perhaps delayed a bit. If you've been paying attention to NASA, you would have known that.
By the way, those missions are delayed because of their own budget overruns, and out-of-control congressional earmarks. Not because of Moon-to-Mars. (Well, not yet at least.)
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Umm, Webb is gone? Since when?
That outlook is pretty simplistic, looking at the history of NASA space science, in which virtually all successful missions were stretched out in development. Get a grip.
"Anti science administration = scietific projects gone."
Gotta tell the administration that. They gave the Science Mission Directorate a budget increase. Oops. (But there is no question that this administration needs some education about the value of basic science.)
Well, no, that's precisely wrong about missions that are gone. JIMO is gone, as such, but Webb and TPF are quite alive, if perhaps delayed a bit. If you've been paying attention to NASA, you would have known that. By the way, those missions are delayed because of their own budget overruns, and out-of-control congressional earmarks. Not because of Moon-to-Mars. (Well, not yet at least.)