Ep. 762: Science in Crisis - NASA’s New Budget

Astronomy Cast

Science, Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Space

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 762: Science in Crisis - NASA’s New Budget By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Jun 30, 2025. Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay Normally we try to end the season on a high note. But there’s unfolding news that we just HAVE to cover before we leave you for the summer. NASA’s new budget is here, and it’s 25% smaller. We’ll cover what the changes are and try to understand the implications. It's a bad decade to be a researcher. We're going to look at why, and what US cuts will mean for the world. SUPPORTED BY YOU This Episode is made possible thanks to our Patrons on Patreon. Join at the Galaxy Group level or higher to be listed in our YouTube videos. Thanks to: BogieNet, Stephen Vei, Jeanette Wink, Siggi Kemmler, Andrew Poelstra, Brian Cagle, David Truog, Ed, David, Gerhard Schwarzer, Sergio Sancevero, Sergey Manouilov, Burry Gowen, David Rossetter, Michael Purcell, Jason Kwong

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0:00.0	I'm Astronomycast, Episode 762, NASA's new budget.
0:57.2	Welcome to AstronomyCaster, weekly fact-based journey through the cosmos.
0:59.9	We help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.
1:00.9	I'm Fraser Kane.
1:04.7	I'm the publisher of the universe today with me, as always is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the director of Cosmo Quest.
1:08.1	Hey, Pamela, how are you doing?
1:09.2	I am doing well. This is our last episode before summer hiatus. I am planning this summer
1:17.6	to upgrade our website to Divi 5. So if any of you out there want anything specific added
1:24.2	to our website, drop us a message.
1:27.7	I have swapped over our Patreon so that I no longer do public messages.
1:33.5	I do free and paid subscriber messages.
1:36.1	So go join our Patreon.
1:38.2	Get regular updates, even if you join for free.
1:41.1	Yes.
1:41.9	This is really important.
1:42.9	While you're listening to this, that Patreon allows you to just follow a creator for free. And like, for example, on astronomy
1:50.5	cast, Pamela sends out tons of information. And most of it is just freely available. A lot of
1:54.8	the stuff that we do is just free. And you don't have to subscribe. And it's the same thing over
1:58.9	on my Patreon for Universe today. Almost all of the content that we release is released for free and public. It has
2:06.9	longer versions of our news stories, longer versions of our Q&A's, longer versions of the interviews.
2:11.8	And it's all just free. And why do we do this? We do this because if you're using social media or if you're using YouTube or all these
2:20.5	kinds of things, these are walled gardens that are trying to keep you in and they can change
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