this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
132 points (96.5% liked)

World News

552 readers
404 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be a decent person
  2. No spam
  3. Add the byline, or write a line or two in the body about the article.

Other communities of interest:

founded 3 months ago
MODERATORS
Deceptichum@quokk.au
Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
132
Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA's Moon Program (futurism.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Domino@lemmings.world to c/world@quokk.au
48 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Consequently, the South African billionaire has been put in charge of a so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" to excise $2 trillion from the national budget. Whether this advisory group will be able to take aim at the Artemis program remains to be seen.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The fact that such clear conflict of interest exists between spacex/NASA and putting musk in the MF whitehouse... I cannot say I'm surprised, anyway.

[โ€“] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

American voters decided that conflicts of interest don't matter. NASA will be lucky to survive this administration at all .