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   Mark McCaughrean (markmccaughrean@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 02:52:33 JST Mark McCaughrean

   The mindless cognitive dissonance in the US budget proposal for NASA is off-scale.

   Saying MSR is grossly over budget & then claiming the same goals can be achieved by human* missions to Mars … 🙄

   Sure, the point is to give all the money to Crown Prince Elmo, but if anyone thinks a human mission to Mars isn’t going to be hugely more expensive & also overrun massively … 🤑

   The proposed budget cuts to NASA are ignorant vandalism.

   *Evidently only men need apply.

   https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf