US politics
fromTheregister
2 weeks agoUS lawmakers fire back a response to Trump's NASA cuts
NASA faces significant budget cuts under Trump's proposal, shifting focus from science to commercial rocket projects.
"Now you can even see how massive it is from space," she said. "I just question how much more is needed before these people are protected from being exposed to these horrible levels of both water and air pollution."
Scott Bolton's first encounter with Io took place in the summer of 1980, right after he graduated from college and started a job at NASA. The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, catching the first glimpse of active volcanism on a world other than Earth. Umbrella-shaped outbursts of magmatic matter rocketed into space from all over Io's surface.
According to Cristina Costantini, the director of Sally, the developments at NASA are particularly disheartening as they echo the silencing that defined Sally Ride's own life.
As has been the case with other federal agencies under the Biden administration, NASA bureaucrats were racking up an astronomical tab doing union time on the taxpayers' dime.