Saturday, June 07, 2025

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I am sleepy, but I updated my site. IDK why I was a bit too restless today. I intended to go to office but didn't. Still slept a lot and wrote a bunch of stories. For the site as well. Japan's iSpace crashed its second lander today. Elon went nuclear on Trump in the morning, bit of an Axiom 4 scare there, I shared a Boeing meme a few hours before Starliner began trending. I wrote a story about star lifting, its fascinating way to extend the lives of stars. I didn't even get to the main topic I wanted to write about, Lazarus Stars. At the same time in the morning, Senate provided discretionary funds to save Gateway, SLS/Orion, but not the Mars Sample Return Mission, tho it cleared a Mars relay orbiter. 

A bunch of NASA extended missions are at Mars and the Moon. Curiosity might shut down. Davinci and Veritas are also gone. Dragonfly and Roman might survive. Chandra, Fermi, Juno, Osiris-Apex, New Horizons are all under threat. Juno hurts the most because it is the most distant operational planetary orbiter. 

Have to see how things turn out. I had a positive approach, waiting to see final decision, but things are looking dire. I hope the data availability channels are not compromised. NOAA and NHS are seeing cuts too. IDC about NHS in all of this lol. 

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