Acting, and not very good at it

 

Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation and the current Acting Administrator of NASA, is planning to end most of NASA's incredible science missions and research: space, planetary, and Earth, and all of the associated scholarship in universities and institutes.

Obviously he doesn't care. Obviously the administration doesn't care about NASA or science. That's been obvious. But it really sucks that NASA's being run by a part-timer who really doesn't care.

Even Jim Bridenstine and Sean O'Keefe cared. Bill Nelson obviously cared.

As Trump taps Sean Duffy for NASA, space agency's future is increasingly in doubt
It’s hard not to wonder whether NASA and the United States’ space program will survive the Republican president's second term.

"What’s more, one of the key elements of this president’s approach to dual-hatting is that his use of the tactic signals an implicit contempt: When Trump taps one person to do two (or more) jobs, it tends to mean that he doesn’t see much value in the underlying positions.

With this in mind, there are growing concerns, not only about NASA’s leadership, but about the future of the space agency itself."