PREVIEW: MARS LANDING Colleague Brandon Weichert comments that the Trump administration cutbacks at NASA and friction with SpaceX may well undermine the Mars effort. [MORE]
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 23 July 2025
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Colleague Brandon Weichert comments that the Trump administration cutbacks at NASA and friction with SpaceX may well undermine the Mars effort.
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| 1:01.8 | My colleague, Gordon Chang, asked my colleague, |
| 1:04.2 | Brendan Meeker, what the NASA cutbacks, |
| 1:08.1 | created by the Trump administration, perhaps fended off by Congress. |
| 1:15.1 | What those cutbacks mean, not only for the moon plans using Elon Musk's starship, but also for the Mars plan, |
| 1:24.1 | Starship and Super Heavy and the program out of Boca Chico. |
| 1:29.5 | What does the breakdown in conversation between the White House and Congress and SpaceX mean for Mars? |
| 1:37.2 | Gordon asks, and here's Brandon's blunt response. |
| 1:40.9 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:41.7 | Well, our Martian mission is now very much in question because |
| 1:46.9 | Elon was helping out NASA and he was relying on funding a lot of these these mission sets for |
| 1:53.7 | Mars by his contracts with the federal government and now those are very much in question so it's |
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