*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱<p>I’ve been expecting this. Musk has often called going to the moon a ‘distraction’, and stands to benefit enormously if NASA pushes all its chips in on Starship and Musk’s masturbatory Mars fantasy.</p><p><em>The proposed budget could also lead to an accelerated retirement for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion crew capsule. These are the vehicles designed to carry US astronauts to the Moon under a Nasa programme called Artemis.</em></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Starship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starship</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Artemis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Artemis</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Orion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orion</span></a></p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/nasas-planned-budget-cuts-could-set-back-space-science-but-show-how-to-future-proof-the-agency-256103" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/nasas-plan</span><span class="invisible">ned-budget-cuts-could-set-back-space-science-but-show-how-to-future-proof-the-agency-256103</span></a></p>