The NASA Glenn Research Center, which has long been considered the Crown Jewel of the Northeast Scientific Community of Ohio, faces a potentially devastating future as part of Donald Trump’s proposed budgetary cuts.
Wherein Today in Ohio Described as the Trump war against science and intellectual activities, the administration plan Would be the overall NASA budget of almost 25%, with particularly serious impacts on the Brook Park facilities.
“This is a punch for northeast of Ohio,” said Leila Atassi. “Trump has just offered, or the administration has just offered, reducing the NASA budget by almost 25%. And this would mean a few major cuts. At the NASA Glenn Research Center in Brook Park, we are talking about losing more than 550 full -time jobs at Glenn alone, reducing the labor market by almost 1,400 people to just over 800.”
The wider implications extend far beyond northeast of Ohio. The cuts would reduce the overall NASA budget by 24.8 billion dollars this year to $ 18.8 billion next year – a level which, adjusted for inflation, would be the lowest since 1961, before the Apollo program which took humans to the moon.
Space defenders call for these proposed reductions “an event of extinguishing for science, research and education, awareness and hundreds of local economies that are linked to the work of the agency”, according to Atassi. Major projects such as the Orion spacecraft and the spatial launch system – of which NASA Glenn has played an important role in development – would be fully canceled.
While the experts suggest that the proposal is probably “dead on arrival” at Congress, the simple suggestion of such dramatic cuts sends a scary message on the priorities of the administration. Chris Quinn observed on the podcast that these cuts seem to be part of a wider scheme: “When you look at the last four months since Donald Trump has been in office and all the attacks he has made in certain areas, it seems to be against intelligence and science. He saves the Harvard scientific university.
This comes at a time when international competition in science and technology is intensifying. Quinn noted that “the most intelligent scientists flee the country looking for opportunities elsewhere. And all the other nations on the planet seek to welcome them and empty our brain. ”
Northeast of Ohio has worked for decades to position itself as a center for aerospace innovation. NASA Glenn has played a decisive role in research on aeronautics, space propulsion, communications technology and energy systems. The proposed cuts would devastate not only the local economy, but potentially collecting critical research in the fields where America has traditionally led the world.
Atassi suggested that the motivations behind the cuts reflect both “the lack of foresight and a failure to see on the road” as well as a lesser objective: “All these cuts are at the service of a thing, which are tax reductions for the rich. He therefore tries to find a way to allow him, and he does not care.
Local leaders, including the member of the Max Miller congress, repel. Miller expressed strong support for the widening of the Glenn imprint and even suggested moving the NASA seat to Ohio.
While the congress begins budgetary deliberations, the future of one of the first American scientific institutions – and an essential element of the northeast economy and identity of Ohio – is blocked in balance.
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