Trump released plans for NASA's budget.
Asteroid Redirect Mission is cut. If you don't remember, that was the plan to break a rock off an asteroid and put it into lunar orbit. Then astronauts on SLS would go study it. The original plan was to send astronauts to an actual asteroid but it had been repeatedly watered down over the years.
Now without ARM, SLS will realistically only be used for the Europa Clipper in 2022 and a test launch next year. Will be cool to see the rocket fly but my gosh is it an expensive waste of time.
(congress might ignore Trump and keep ARM. They regularly did that with Obama and gave NASA more money)
Asteroid Redirect Mission is cut. If you don't remember, that was the plan to break a rock off an asteroid and put it into lunar orbit. Then astronauts on SLS would go study it. The original plan was to send astronauts to an actual asteroid but it had been repeatedly watered down over the years.
Now without ARM, SLS will realistically only be used for the Europa Clipper in 2022 and a test launch next year. Will be cool to see the rocket fly but my gosh is it an expensive waste of time.
(congress might ignore Trump and keep ARM. They regularly did that with Obama and gave NASA more money)
