Space Prussian

A reminder that @rookisaacman has been very consistent about saying NASA could do more with less, both before and after his nomination.

LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE

What the shitter pundits fail to realize about the PBR is that a lot of this defense spending will be directed towards space. NASA is no longer the only game in town.

@M1shaYT @DarthMac_OG @POTUS You're an idiot who can't read past a headline.

@Space_Prussian @DarthMac_OG @POTUS His admin proposed nasa budget cuts.

Under @POTUS, our budget will get ruined once again. 🇺🇸

There are seriously people who are engaging on the NASA budget issue with “more money =more gooder science!” level of thinking without any regard for how these programs are actually funded and ran. Read literally any NASA OIG report and it’s very easy to see how wrong this is.

You can't reason with panicans, they can only panic & doom.

@Xenoimpulse China doesn't have either so wtf are you talking about?

>climate extremism >woke STEM programming and research Trump is sent by God himself to punish the United States for its sins and destroy it.

@StarCobShipSon $2.6 billion + $175 million

Thats not even 2 expendable starship launches man wdym thats to establish a lunar base

@eccorca @esjesjesj a part, dickhead.

@esjesjesj starship is apart of artemis

No Artemis rockets have blown up

@_Testflight_ It's actually $2.6 billion + $175 million, you're the one who has no clue.

They've given NASA a little more than a single RS-25 engine worth of funding, FOR THE ENTIRE MOON BASE??? lmao these people have no clue what they are doing

I don’t think we should ever be cutting NASA budgets, at the same time though, NASA is a machine that is just reawakening from years of inefficiency and mismanagement. There’s a couple important things to remember when considering this budget request through that lense. 1. The exploration budget is actually increased. 2. This is on top of additional funding (10billion) provided in the big beautiful bill. Split that up among FY26/27, where the funds are being used, evens them out to roughly the same nominal budget 3. You can in fact do more with less, under the previous decades of mismanagement and waste NASA could’ve been given 50 billion dollars and it likely would’ve not gone to the right places. Perhaps the most critical part of funding is the plan itself. I’d rather see 18b plan that sees a reasonable moon base plan vs a 24b plan that sees us uselessly chucking money at heritage hardware that won’t help us establish anything worthwhile. Again, if spent properly I would want NASA to have a 100 billion dollar budget. But don’t act like an emotional child when you see a 23% cut without even looking at the budget breakdown or considering how this plays into wider strategy.

@Pinboard It will be reallocated the the Base, clearly.

@Space_Prussian The question is what happens with the budget slice for it

Reminder that the ~$2.6 billion from the One Big Beautiful Bill for Gateway can and will be used for this!

@Pinboard There is no question of what happens next with Gateway.

@Space_Prussian No, but they contributed a lot to Gateway, and what happens next is a question of negotiations under Article 21 of the memorandum of understanding with ESA.

Mark Kelly Cheers Artemis Launch After Voting Against Its Funding dailywire.com/news/mark-kell…

@Pinboard No!? How does that depend on international partners? Do they allocate NASA's money now?

@Space_Prussian That will depend in large part on international partners.

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Administrator Isaacman has promised monthly robotic missions to the moon in 2027. But Trump's proposed NASA budget allocates a comical $175 million to that goal—barely enough to cover a Falcon Heavy launch

I think we need to prepare for a distinct possibility on April 5th. Space twitter, this is very important for you all to read and understand, so you can explain to the laymen in the event that this actually occurs. In 1968, humans went to the moon for the first time ever, and they did it during Christmas. And, for the occasion, the Apollo 8 astronauts read a passage from the book of genesis. Fast forward to 2026, and Artemis II is flying a very similar mission, this time, during Easter. An equally, if not more important holy day to Christians all over the world. Now as many of you may know, Astronaut Victor Glover has been very vocal about his faith, and has brought a bible with him to the Moon. This means that there is a significant chance that a reading from the Bible occurs on Easter, in a similar vain to what Apollo 8 did on Christmas. Spitter, your job will be to remind people that this is NOT a political event, and is in fact, something that NASA astronauts have done before, the last time we went to the Moon. Wether this actually occurs, I can’t say, and I imagine it is rather unlikely, but I think that if it does, this will be an extremely publicized and unfortunately an extremely politicized event, and we need to be the rational voices explaining why it is happening. Thank you all for your attention to this matter.