I should add that this is especially exciting, because only a year ago it looked like Roman was never going to be launched. So Go Roman! Go team! 🤗
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans
The cuts "would kill the much-anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory seen as on par with [Hubble & JWST] that is already fully assembled and on budget for a launch in two years." Would also apparently close NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Huge, HUGE loss for science.
Katie Mack
Hey! It's bad! arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
2/3 cut in astrophysics
2/3 cut in heliophysics
50% cut in Earth science
30% cut in planetary science
This is just such an incredible self-own, what are we doing?
“This would decimate American leadership in space.”…
