“You know what makes this bird go up? Funding makes this bird go up.” Dennis Quaid’s line from The Right Stuff has felt less like movie dialogue and more like a policy memo these past two weeks in Washington. OMB paused funding for select NASA missions after Congress brushed aside the administration’s proposed budget cuts; Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker says he has “a million questions” about the Golden Dome budget; NASA’s Starliner Crew Flight Test investigation found that program-viability concerns influenced decision-making; and the U.S., China and others are accelerating efforts to procure commercial space assets for military use.
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