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The trump administration and Congress strung NASA employees out for a year.

This ought to be illegal and who knows, it might be. Trump and his administration has proposed a cut of 23% to NASA’s budget. One of the victims is Johnson Space Center’s major program, Gateway. Gateway is/was to be a space station in the Moon’s orbit. The idea was to use Gateway as an orbiting base for vehicles and crew to land on the Moon. That is all gone. Gateway has been put on “pause”.

Prior to the big beautiful bill Gateway was on the chopping block along with the Artemis vehicle and the Space Launch System. The SLS and Artemis had already flown. Both were built and tested and both were going to be cut. Our elected officials here in Houston said nothing. Senator Cornyn and Cruz were too busy trying to move a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian to JSC which would create tens of tens of jobs all while we would lose thousands of good paying jobs that support these programs. The beautiful bill saved the programs…..for a year. Now Gateway is on “pause” which means it is dead. It’s going to be cut giving those who work the programs time to find work elsewhere.

Seven years of research, design, and implementation down the drain. Billions lost. Thousands of jobs lost. This is just stupidity at its finest and our elected officials are quiet as a scared mouse. They have said nothing. They will do nothing.

NASA/JSC’s Congressman Brian Babin is up for reelection in November.

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