Rick ThomanI can’t really square the enthusiastic destruction of most things science, e.g. education, cancer research, earth system monitoring, etc, etc, with a rocket launch to the moon.
🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯️@AlaskaWx @ai6yr with this administration in the US, it's always about the spectacle. Bread & Circuses.
Mighty Orbot@CuriousMagpie Trump has been fixated on sending humans to the Moon and/or Mars during his administration because he wants to be mentioned beside them in the history books.
It’s not a scientific endeavor—there’s nothing they can find on the moon that we don’t already know about—and it won’t be a practical launching point to get to Mars for decades.
Trump tried to decimate NASA’s budget last year; he clearly doesn’t care about any of the science they planned. It’s just a vanity project for him.