NASA Has Plans To Build A Reactor On The Moon By 2030

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05 Aug 2025, 6:57 pm

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev2dylxv74o


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05 Aug 2025, 7:42 pm

And when it blows up and leaves a crater, everything will still look the same.


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05 Aug 2025, 8:50 pm

The proposed trump 2026 budget cuts includes a substantial 24% reduction compared to 2025, according to The Conversation.
https://theconversation.com/uncertainty ... cut-258032
This would bring NASA's budget to $18.8 billion, down from $24.9 billion.

MAGA has screwed NASA's plans. So much for making America great again.



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18 Oct 2025, 10:00 pm

That's only 5 years from now. No way can NASA be that fast! This isn't the 60! Probably in the year 2050 someone will be being NASA has plans to build a reactor on the moon by 2025.


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19 Oct 2025, 4:33 pm

there are several areas NASA could cooperate with other agencies. the era of individual governments and aerospace companies spending money purely for nationalist or commercial reasons should end.

we still haven't emerged from 60s era space race where there was a race to get a man on the moon. NASA, China and Russia spending money on spy satellites, space missile defence systems or countries like India putting large portions of their GDP into space missions rather than addressing development goals first.

Money for space should be pooled by all countries into a central body and allocated toward projects that have global relevance. If the proposed NASA lunar reactor is a first step toward permanent human settlements then that is good, but I would like to see more cooperation with other space agencies and aerospace (like Space X) pooling money rather than NASA going on an ego trip to make America "great again" in space.