The bizarre dichotomy of the US: The amazing & inspiring Artemis II mission and the incompetent, malicious Donald Trump

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4. Trump is keeping NASA going for simple reasons

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He has already tried to gut one very crucial aspect of it, the climate science research. That was increased over the last half-century as scientists began to heed the data and became rightly concerned that space exploration would be for naught if we destroy our civilization and ecosphere.

So why is Trump focused on the lunar program? Because his tech broligarch buddies are telling him to do it. Because they and other uber-capitalists believe there are boatloads of money to be made with the moon, from resource extraction, or simply contracts.

It isn't because anyone values knowledge for its own sake. It is because they value knowledge only if it leads to wealth.