Traveling 1 & 2, Perseverance, Curiosity: To please Trump, NASA banishes its legendary social media missions

Another bad news for NASA, its fans, as well as communication on space sciences in general. Indeed, on social networks, we learned last week that the accounts of legendary, and always active mission, of NASA were going to be deleted to “Reduce communication costs”.

This decision is of course within the framework of the reaffirmed will of the White House to reduce all budgets linked to non-military sciences. Undoubtedly that a spatial history enthusiast like Jared Isaacman, a time intended to lead the agency and finally dismissed by Donald Trump, would have grinned his teeth if he had to participate in such a stroke of the plane, probably for such small savings in addition.

The missions such as the Rovers Curiosity and Perseverance, the Singles Voyager 1 and 2, had their own account on X and Bluesky, with sometimes millions of subscribers. It was therefore fun to see the discoveries, photos or news presented as if it was the machine that was addressed to us directly.

Admittedly, it is not a scientific drama in itself, just a stroke more brought to the image than the public has sciences, as well as to scientific communication which, let us recall, serves, among other things, to arouse vocations.

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