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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.

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.

#Starship #NASA #Artemis #Orion

theconversation.com/nasas-plan

The ConversationNasa’s planned budget cuts could set back space science, but show how to future-proof the agency
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The #Mars 🔴 Sample Return mission will be achieved by #human 👩‍🚀 missions to Mars. "Crew and cargo flights to the #ISS would be significantly reduced 📉. The station’s reduced research capacity would be focused on efforts critical to the #Moon and Mars exploration programs." arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/

Ars Technica · White House budget seeks to end SLS, Orion, and Lunar Gateway programsBy Eric Berger

Evening twilight shows the bright stars of the winter constellations setting in the west. Two 'guests' are also in the frame...the moon (grossly overexposed), and Jupiter below it.

Cirrus clouds are moving in from the west, but only block the brightest parts of the twilight sky near the horizon.

The lights of La Luz shine at the bottom of the frame, right of center.

This is a wide angle image (APS-C sensor, 12mm lens), taken on a fixed tripod.

I took a series of images that started in bright twilight and continued to full night. I chose this image because it didn't show too many stars (easier to identify constellations), yet it was mixed with a nice gradient of twilight that was fairly bright near the horizon (with touches of orange and yellow) and rather dark up high.