The Senate Appropriations Committee recommended about $1 billion in cuts from the U.S. Space Force’s $30 billion request.

  • zhunk@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    “Only” $29 billion for the Space Force.

    Whatever “special space activities” procurement means, it got about a half billion dollar cut.

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      1 year ago

      NASA doesn’t have nearly the infrastructure to obligate double its existing budget. It’d take 6 months just to figure out how to spend it, and a lot of it would go to anybody that said they could use it instead of to valuable projects. I would support doubling the NASA budget over say 3 years - that’d give the agency time to hire up and develop the pipeline of work.

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        There are some immediate smaller problems that could eat some quick money, like funding Mars Sample Return, uncancelling Janus, some one-off funding for an ISS deorbit tug and commercial stations, and probably untold amounts of facility maintenance.

        But yeah, an immediate doubling without warning doesn’t sound like a recipe for success.