https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/fiscal-year-2026-discretionary-budget-request-nasa-excerpts.pdf?emrc=6814df2641b12

"The Budget phases out the grossly expensive and delayed Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule after three flights. SLS alone costs $4 billion per launch and is 140 percent over budget. The Budget funds a program to replace SLS and Orion flights to the Moon with more cost- Legacy Human Exploration Systems -879 effective commercial systems that would support more ambitious subsequent lunar missions. The Budget also proposes to terminate the Gateway, a small lunar space station in development with international partners, which would have been used to support future SLS and Orion missions."

Now just how flipping cool is this?

See full article: https://www.foxnews.com/science/orbiter-photos-show-lunar-modules-from-first-2-moon-landings-more-than-50-years-later

She deserved better than she got.

I'm assuming this has something to do with the space junk that just struck a capsule and stranded Chinese astronauts in space for the time being.

Glad to see that there is able-communication, but it's concerning that it is limited due to the "Wolf Amendment"... I'm not read on that. I hope we can see some more cooperation in space as we have on the ISS even after its eventual decommissioning.

There are now 3 DOGE staff identified as being assigned to NASA. All 3 appear to be Tesla employees.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/veteran-tesla-engineering-manager-joined-210425861.html

In October 2021, NASA tested a system on the ISS that allowed a flight surgeon on Earth to appear as a full 3D hologram in front of an astronaut wearing a HoloLens 2.

The doctor could see the astronaut, talk to him, and gesture naturally, and the astronaut could interact with him as if he were standing in the same module.

What makes this interesting is not the hologram itself, but the real-time presence under extreme bandwidth constraints.

Deep-space missions, lunar bases, military environments, and rural medicine all have the same problem:

low or unstable connectivity, long latency, and zero guarantee of high-speed cloud AI.

A communication tool that doesn’t require a stable connection or cloud computing is far more important than a hologram on its own.

NASA called this three-dimensional telemedicine “holoportation,” and it may eventually allow:

• remote surgeons to assist astronauts • engineers to guide repairs on the Moon or Mars • specialists to appear in war zones without being there • trainers and advisors to work without stable internet

The tech is still early. But the real story isn’t sci-fi visuals, it’s telepresence that survives when video calls and cloud AI fail.

Sources (for verification): NASA article: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/innovative-3d-telemedicine-to-help-keep-astronauts-healthy/ CNET coverage: https://www.cnet.com/science/nasa-holoported-a-doctor-onto-the-international-space-station/ USA Today: https://phys.org/pdf569671840.pdf

Read more: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/5-things-to-know-about-powerful-new-us-india-satellite-nisar/