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A draft budget proposal would end support for the International Space Station (ISS) by 2025. The U.S. was previously committed to operating at the ISS until 2024:
The Trump administration is preparing to end support for the International Space Station program by 2025, according to a draft budget proposal reviewed by The Verge. Without the ISS, American astronauts could be grounded on Earth for years with no destination in space until NASA develops new vehicles for its deep space travel plans.
The draft may change before an official budget request is released on February 12th. However, two people familiar with the matter have confirmed to The Verge that the directive will be in the final proposal. We reached out to NASA for comment, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
Also at the Wall Street Journal.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @12:56AM (2 children)
You filled the WH with smoking shit to keep the plague outside and you succeeded.
Do you have any reasons now to keep that shit for longer? Perhaps you got to like it since?
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday January 26 2018, @04:29AM (1 child)
Because it still seems to be working okay at keeping the elephants and donkeys out. Some of the elephants are getting to where they can ignore the smell but the longer they stay away the better.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @06:18AM
That would be kind of cute except, once you get past the smoke and mirrors, he's following modern (aka batshit) Republican policy to the letter.