tRump Wants NASA Out of Space Station by 2025, Businesses In

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The Trump administration wants NASA out of the International Space Station by 2025 and private businesses running the place.





Under President Donald Trump's 2019 proposed budget released Monday, U.S. government funding for the space station would end by 2025. The government would set aside $150 million to encourage commercial development.

Many space experts are expressing concern. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat who rocketed into orbit in 1986, said "turning off the lights and walking away from our sole outpost in space" makes no sense.

Retired NASA historian and Smithsonian curator Roger Launius notes that any such move will affect all the other countries involved in the space station; Russia is a major player, as is Europe, Japan and Canada. "I suspect this will be a major aspect of any decisions about ISS's (space station's) future," Launius wrote in an email.

NASA has spent close to $100 billion on the orbiting outpost since the 1990s. The first piece was launched in 1998, and the complex was essentially completed with the retirement of NASA's space shuttles in 2011.

Private businesses already have a hand in the project. - US News and World Report

So you couldn't pull the lever for Hillary because Russian bots gave you a bad feeling about her, someone who held something like a 63% approval rating while in office. And for what?! THIS!

Hope you learned something from our combined suffering.

[msongs]

1. putin made him an offer trump cant refuse - russia will put the USA out of the space business nt

[lunasun]

2. yeah but her emails so

plus gubermint needs to stay out of science . Not the way to get to heaven!!

[BoneyardDem]

3. I like the idea that Russians will run the space station virtually unchecked, unchallenged and....

...being viewed as the leader in this project. Yessiree, loving that degradation of USA space champs #1