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Keith’s note: that feeling you get when you grew up watching Star Trek – thinking that NASA was the key to that future – and then seeing today’s FY 2026 NASA budget request from the White House and realizing that you’ve been robbed.
Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member... More by Keith Cowing
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Where do we even go from here? I know you’re not supposed to base your identity on work, but all I’ve wanted to do and all I’ve wanted to be my whole life is a NASA engineer. I build earth science satellites that help people and help the country. How did we get here that that’s somehow a bad thing that shouldn’t be funded?
I left NASA a while ago. You can leave NASA but NASA never leaves you.
I remember that feeling well. I lost it on a cold January morning in 1986.
The fact that so many of our coworkers voted for this bs is what hurts the most.
Back in the days congressmen and senators that are able to “bring home the bacon” or federal programs in their district were able to get re-elected. Nowadays it’s as if same members that vote to cancel programs that spend money in their district will still be popular. But maybe that’s the intent as human spaceflight portion of NASA the biggest piece of the pie and mostly in red districts. While rest of NASA in blue districts. Perfectly aligns as provides more money for Elon’s company (and one of his guys for Administrator).