(a note from myself: if NASA dies, it will become difficult for anyone in the US to replace the NOAA HURRICANE FORECASTS so crucial to Florida and the Gulf Coast. This due to no sattelite data.)
(synopsis from the middle of the report):
About 150 participated in the Save NASA rally at Eisenhower Park to both save and promote what NASA does to benefit the public. It was held on a symbolic date in U.S. space history, the 56th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. It was on this date in 1969 that the U.S. safely landed the first humans on the moon in the Apollo 11 space vehicle named “The Eagle.” The landing site became widely known as “Tranquility Base” when the ship’s Captain, Neil Armstrong announced, “Tranquility base here…the Eagle has landed.” The astronauts landed The Eagle with less than 30 seconds of fuel left in its descent tanks.
The scientists and engineers at Eisenhower Park were not focusing on NASA’s glory and past achievement on that historic day 56 years ago. Perhaps in any other given year they should have been focused on it because such a momentous day of achievement deserves celebration of some kind. Instead, they were focused on what was to come of their embattled science Agency with the plans to cut 47% of its budget, which they say will devastate NASA.
NASA employees were there to tell the public that U.S. science discoveries would be lost due to many canceled projects and scientists and engineers being forced to leave the Agency. They urged the public to contact their representatives in Congress and ask them not to approve project defunding or the mass exodus of talent from NASA.