The point of lunar gateway was to get an infrastructure benefit to all future missions to anywhere on the moon. Changing it to a lunar base that is stuck in one location is a massive reduction in the scope of their ambitions. It would be like the 19th century US scapping plans for the transcontinental railway network and using the parts to make mining outposts.
But just think how much taxpayer’s funding can be redirected to private enterprises to further their owner’s American dreams of being billionaires, corruption is only corruption for the poor!
It’s interesting because this means downscaling the SLS corruption cash cow, which has been an important way for congresspeople to get kickbacks. Combined with the increased funding for AI, the fossil fuel industry, and the military-industrial complex, this represents a shift of the fruits of corruption from congresspeople to private enterprise.
Which makes sense in the greater context of Project 2025 and the US becoming a dictatorship governed by executive order.
yeah this seems incredibly stupid to me. would rather do a station at a langrange point than this.
That figure seems simultaneously too low and also a collosal waste of money, but I think I’d feel differently if it wasn’t proposed under Trump’s regime.
They are gonna install weapons and there will be a massive catastrophic event.