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Ask HN: Will nasa.gov stay globally accessible?

4 points by whiteboardr ↗ HN
In the hopes of not breaching the politics guidelines, but a topic i genuinely wonder about since the new administration took office:

I'm worried if things are progressing as they are, that US-science, especially Nasa might fall victim of being put behind a fence for the rest of the global science community.

Anyone here who can give this worry a sanity check, besides the political and speculative nature of the question at hand?

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belter
Looks like Musk will decide that:

"Trump Gives Elon Musk’s Buddy Total Control Over NASA" - https://newrepublic.com/post/189046/trump-elon-musk-buddy-ja...

whiteboardr
Isaacman is a great fit though and a seemingly good, curious and positively driven guy:

Former NASA astronauts endorse Isaacman as administrator https://spacenews.com/former-nasa-astronauts-endorse-isaacma...

belter
Out of that shameful letter, five astronauts have direct business ties to Elon Musk or SpaceX. Three more, have indirect or advocacy ties to Musk. Also SpaceX and related Musk business have hired, several former NASA astronauts as advisors or consultants, so I guess for the rest we just have to follow the money.

Scott Kelly signed that letter, but not sure he would stand by it, when Musk associates start decimating NASA.

Oh, and since when did we start calling Space Tourists: Commercial Astronauts ? Dennis Tito spent 8 days at the ISS and nobody would call him Commercial Astronaut