""They feel they have a stable future," a person familiar with the matter told The Register. "However, if you look beyond that - because this is the interesting thing - NASA is a bit worried. It doesn't quite know what's going on.""
""The damn stupid thing is this is the way America behaves," our source said. "It does this sort of thing pretty much every year - obviously, more savagely than ever before.""
""They are ridiculously relaxed, because they think: last time this happened, the Senate threw it out. They'll throw it out again. There's a lot of bipartisan support for space activities, which may be correct, but it's a dangerous way to live.""
""People are going to look very carefully at their careers... People will say, 'Well, look, being in a NASA lab was once great, but how's the funding going to go in the future?'""
NASA's Artemis II mission is underway while the Trump administration proposes cuts to the agency's science budget. Insiders express a mix of concern and resilience, noting a history of budget cuts that Congress has previously rejected. Despite a sense of stability at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the long-term outlook remains uncertain. The proposed cuts could jeopardize up to 82 NASA missions, leading to doubts about career viability for future engineers and scientists in the agency.
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