Well after Obama gutted NASA who would YOU credit?
That was the orange retard, moron.
February 10, 2020
In the Trump administration's federal budget request for 2021, proposes the cancellation of two
NASA telescopes, two Earth science satellites and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) engagement efforts.
The budget proposal calls for a number of significant programs has been cut or scrapped entirely. The budget request calls for millions of dollars in cuts to the following programs and technologies:
The complete termination of the
Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), an astrophysics mission that has faced previous
cuts and been
threatened with cancellation. According to the agency, the mission is being canceled because of delays and growing costs with the agency's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — a project that continues to face difficulties, delays and climbing budget needs.
"The Administration is not ready to proceed with another multi-billion-dollar space telescope until Webb has been successfully launched and deployed,"
February 4, 2010
The Obama administration’s proposed budget will radically change the agenda for NASA, while increasing the agency’s budget.
Obama’s proposed budget demonstrates that the administration is prepared to provide more cash for the space agency — about $6 billion annually.
If Mr. Obama’s proposed budget is implemented, NASA a few years from now would be fundamentally different from NASA today. The space agency would no longer operate its own spacecraft, but essentially buy tickets for its astronauts on commercially launched rockets. It would end its program to return to the moon and would pursue future missions to deep space by drawing more cooperation and financing from other nations.?
Seems Obama had a vision 10 years ago, Trump took credit for, usual for the bloviating, orange retard.
NASA's three big-ticket projects—the James Webb Space Telescope, the
Orion capsule, and the Space Launch System deep space rocket—are all fully funded under Obama's budget. A full $620 million would go toward Webb in 2016, with a launch date set for 2018. The Orion capsule would see $1.1 billion in 2016, and SLS $1.36 billion, paving the way for NASA's future deep space exploration efforts.
Commercial spaceflight efforts will be allotted $1.24 billion under the proposal. This includes NASA funding to
Boeing and SpaceX, the companies it wants to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station on privately built vehicles starting in 2017. The ISS itself will get $3.1 billion.
An additional $411 million will go toward Mars exploration, including the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers, the Mars MAVEN orbiter, as well as the planned Mars 2020 rover. New Frontiers, the program that includes the current
New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Juno mission to Jupiter, will get $259 million, much of it going toward the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample retrieval.
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