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So NASA's budget last year, $25 billion, break it down for us. How is that money being spent What are the dimensions upon which you would kind of categorize that budget? And we'll talk about kind of what's going forward.

So NASA's budget last year, $25 billion, break it down for us. How is that money being spent What are the dimensions upon which you would kind of categorize that budget? And we'll talk about kind of what's going forward.

Sorry, just tell us what SLS is for the audience.

Sorry, just tell us what SLS is for the audience.

I want to just talk about the Trump budget proposal for NASA. So this is the NASA budget over the history of NASA. And the proposed budget would basically create the lowest budget since 1961. So they're proposing to reduce the overall budget from $25 billion a year down to $19 billion a year. Wow. Were you part of the conversation on building this budget?

I want to just talk about the Trump budget proposal for NASA. So this is the NASA budget over the history of NASA. And the proposed budget would basically create the lowest budget since 1961. So they're proposing to reduce the overall budget from $25 billion a year down to $19 billion a year. Wow. Were you part of the conversation on building this budget?

And then I'll highlight some of the features of this budget here in a moment. But did you have conversations with the administration as this was being put together and some of these proposals were being considered? I mean, how deep have you gone in this?

And then I'll highlight some of the features of this budget here in a moment. But did you have conversations with the administration as this was being put together and some of these proposals were being considered? I mean, how deep have you gone in this?

Okay, so in this budget, there's a proposal to cancel SLS and Orion, terminate numerous robotic science missions, including the Mars sample return mission, probes to Venus, and several future space telescopes. And it represents the White House's desire to end the development of a nuclear thermal rocket engine. I guess having scrutinized this budget, how do you react to what you see being proposed

Okay, so in this budget, there's a proposal to cancel SLS and Orion, terminate numerous robotic science missions, including the Mars sample return mission, probes to Venus, and several future space telescopes. And it represents the White House's desire to end the development of a nuclear thermal rocket engine. I guess having scrutinized this budget, how do you react to what you see being proposed

And does it solve what you've identified as some of the challenges in NASA? Or are those more management challenges? Does budget create a constraining force here that fixes some of the issues with respect to focus and concentration of capital into the right projects for you from your point of view?

And does it solve what you've identified as some of the challenges in NASA? Or are those more management challenges? Does budget create a constraining force here that fixes some of the issues with respect to focus and concentration of capital into the right projects for you from your point of view?

100%, 100%. And I think a lot of people hear budget cuts, and I hear this on the NIH side as well now, that the administration and budget cutting is gonna take lives, people are gonna lose lives, we're gonna lose science. This is an anti-science agenda. But if you can get more efficient

100%, 100%. And I think a lot of people hear budget cuts, and I hear this on the NIH side as well now, that the administration and budget cutting is gonna take lives, people are gonna lose lives, we're gonna lose science. This is an anti-science agenda. But if you can get more efficient

with how you deploy capital, and how you manage the deployment of that capital and the utilization of that capital, you actually accelerate science, you accelerate outcomes, and you improve the condition and the prosperity for humanity for America. And it's completely a misdirected statement when people say that a budget cut is an anti science movement.

with how you deploy capital, and how you manage the deployment of that capital and the utilization of that capital, you actually accelerate science, you accelerate outcomes, and you improve the condition and the prosperity for humanity for America. And it's completely a misdirected statement when people say that a budget cut is an anti science movement.

It's about finding the right places that you get more outcomes and redeploy in a smarter, more efficient way. It drives me nuts. I just see it, you know, all over right now.

It's about finding the right places that you get more outcomes and redeploy in a smarter, more efficient way. It drives me nuts. I just see it, you know, all over right now.

I do think overfunding leads to complacency, leads to bureaucracy, which actually leads to a slowdown in discovery, a slowdown in invention, a slowdown in progress. Anyway, I'm sorry for my rant.

I do think overfunding leads to complacency, leads to bureaucracy, which actually leads to a slowdown in discovery, a slowdown in invention, a slowdown in progress. Anyway, I'm sorry for my rant.