[perihelions]

- "Several upcoming missions, including NASA’s DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging)"

DAVINCI is actually cancelled in the latest budget request. For obvious reasons, the NASA press office (the OP) won't talk about this. But 50% of NASA's science funding is gone.

https://spacenews.com/white-house-proposal-would-slash-nasa-...

[gammarator]

> But 50% of NASA's science funding is gone.

The proposed cuts to science are catastrophic, but there’s still time to call your Congressperson.

https://aas.org/posts/news/2025/05/week-of-action

[Mistletoe]

I remember writing to my red congressman once and they wrote back telling me how wrong I was. Democracy felt different after that.

[Animats]

Supposedly, the Senate Launch System boondoggle is being killed, but not until 2027, by which time the Artemis III moon landing is supposed to happen. Since Artemis II (manned flight around the moon) has been delayed again, that's unlikely.

Ninth Space-X Starship/Super Heavy launch some time this month.

[sph]

> Senate Launch System

Where can I contribute to put all the senators in a spaceship and yeet them into outer space?

[potato3732842]

I propose we just yeet one of them and see if the rest clean up their act.

[LastMuel]

Is there something to suggest that they would actually be good at their jobs if they were to be better motivated? I’m not seeing it.

[thejazzman]

They've done wilder things to stay in office

[Rooster61]

They need to be yeeted pretty far out. There is already enough garbage orbiting the Earth as it is

[kjkjadksj]

The ones who would have actually put the brakes on this are already trying to do that without your call. The ones who don’t care will ignore your call. Tellingly everything has fallen on party lines aside from maybe 1 or 2 republicans who realize they can deviate and save a little shame but never enough of them to affect the overall vote.

[trelane]

The full proposed budget is available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal... folks are interested in seeing the whole picture and reasoning.

[mmooss]

> reasoning

The justification? I don't think they are open about their reasoning.

[erkt]

Typo in your URL. replace the last l with a d ....".pdf" not ".plf"

[trelane]

Thanks! Fixed.

And no thanks to autocorrect.

[protocolture]

wp-content?

Am I the only one shocked to see wordpress here.

[dangrossman]

The WH website switched from Drupal to WordPress in 2017.

[nradov]

HTTP 404

[goodcanadian]

I would remind everyone that congress sets the budget. This is merely a proposal from the president. The proposal is regularly ignored. Nothing has been cancelled, yet, merely proposed to be cancelled.

[jmclnx]

That really stinks. As I said before, the US is handing all good research and science ti China.