About 20% of the employees at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration are set to depart the space agency, a NASA spokesperson said on Friday.

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    3 days ago

    MAGA is fine with this. What are we wasting this money for?!

    DeGrasse Tyson gave a talk years ago about how if America won’t invest in science, we don’t get to name achievements that go down in history. We’re gladly handing over to China.

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      2 days ago

      One of the only good things I said that Trump did in his first term was invest in space. Gave NASA more budget, created Space Force, as ridiculous as it is at this stage in our history… looks like he just took away the one good thing I credited him for.

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        2 days ago

        The Space Force is perfectly logical. Combine all our miltary’s space activity, intelligence, satellites, all of it, into one dedicated branch. No clue how that’s working out IRL.

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            2 days ago

            Sounds like it should be if it isn’t. Space Force seems like a misguided attempt to start the Terran Marines from warhammer/starcraft and other military scifis.