On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 07:07:05 -0800 (PST), bob haller
wrote:


.... [Trump] wants to restart the draft and put ground troops in syria. plus the wall.

there will be no money left for space exploration



It is hard to discern Trump's intentions; he's the king of mixed
signals. On the one hand there is this report from space news:

http://spacenews.com/the-big-changes...oming-to-nasa/

But on the other hand there's this report from the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/u...T.nav=top-news

.....which may or may not bolster your argument of the military eating
the NASA budget, because the article doesn't mention it one way or
another. A report on the radio this morning described the agencies
targeted for cuts as "long-time Republican targets" and AFAIK, that's
not NASA.

Add to this mix this action from Congress:

http://spacenews.com/house-ready-to-...pending-bills/

And it appears that commercial space backers have warmed to SLS a
smidge:

http://spacenews.com/commercial-grou...launch-system/


My impression is that both Congress and many players in the space
industry don't want a repeat of the upheaval touched off by the FY
2011 budget. Reports also seem to indicate that if the Trump
administration favors shaking things up, it appears to be in favor of
SLS/Orion, not against it. This is not implausible because Trump's
AG, Jeff Sessions, was the senator from Alabama, and so has the
Marshall Spaceflight Center in mind.

But I'm the first to admit this is all speculation based on scant
evidence. We won't know for certain until Trump releases his budget
and names his NASA administrator. The lead for that is a House member
who's run a space museum and so is knowledgeable, but knowing Trump he
could tap a member of the Flat Earth Society who contributed a lot of
money. At the moment, this is my best guess.

To coin a phrase, watch this space.