As Astronauts Visit the Moon, NASA Insider Says Agency Is in Shambles Behind the Scenes

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Noel Joshua Hadley

We watched in awe as four NASA astronauts crammed inside a small spacecraft traveled around the far side of the Moon before starting their five-day return journey this week, delivering spectacular images of the “blue marble” we call our home and our closest celestial neighbor’s cragged surface.

The images perfectly highlighted the frailty of our existence: a tiny sliver of an atmosphere trapping a perfectly composited mixture of gases that allows life to flourish, making us possibly unique in the universe (at least as far as we know.)

And yet, despite an undeniable and worsening climate crisis, the Trump administration has turned a blind eye to environmental regulations and research, forcing out thousands of scientists and systematically dismantling atmospheric research institutions, as former NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies research scientist Kate Marvel detailed in a scorching new guest essay published by the New York Times.

In her essay, Marvel argued that the astronauts’ “pictures remind us that Earth has changed immensely since the last time astronauts went near the Moon in 1972.”

“So has NASA,” she added. “Budget cuts, chaos, and political interference now threaten the very science that motivates and enables space exploration.”

A 2025 report by the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation concluded that the agency had been prematurely and illegally acting on Trump’s highly controversial 2026 budget proposal for the space agency, well before Congress had a chance to sign off — which it never did.

In January, lawmakers decided NASA’s budget would remain largely unchanged. Nonetheless, as budget cuts loomed and climate change denial surged, over 10,000 doctoral-trained experts in science left their jobs last year as part of an interagency, nationwide brain drain.

Little has changed since then. The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its proposed 2027 budget for NASA last week, two days after the agency’s Artemis 2 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center, renewing its efforts to eviscerate its science directorate by proposing a reduction of its budget totaling a whopping 47 percent. The proposal appalled the science community and lawmakers.

Marvel says she has experienced the Trump administration’s “attacks” on science first hand. Two weeks ago she left the agency, writing in a resignation letter that she wanted to “tell the truth” and “speak publicly about everything I learn.”

In her latest essay, Marvel argued that “tracking the changes to Earth from space put me and my colleagues in the cross hairs of an administration particularly devoted to protecting the interests of the oil and gas industry.”

“By this March, the chaos was a constant, and the attacks on our work were only intensifying,” she wrote. “I knew then that it was time to go.”

Marvel also argued that environmental research has absolutely nothing to do with politics.

“Climate science is not innately politically charged, whatever the administration says,” she wrote. “No one I worked with had (or wanted) the power to make policy. It was our job to study the laws of physics, which remain true no matter who’s in power.”

Indeed, the Trump administration has — unsuccessfully — ordered the termination of major climate change-focused satellite missions and even omitted any mentions of climate change when releasing its latest annual report on global temperatures.

To Marvel, it’s tantamount to self-sabotage by refusing to foster a deeper understanding of our planet and its climate.

“NASA is still trying to conjure the notion of inspiration,” she wrote in her essay. “Perhaps if and when Artemis II returns safely to Earth, a generation of children will be inspired to see our world from above.”

“But for now,” she added, “NASA is throttling the scientific pipeline and diminishing our ability to see and understand our planet.”

“Without science, the stunning images of Earth from space are only pretty pictures,” Marvel argued. “We all deserve so much more.”

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Sacred Scripture

Acts 28 ends abruptly and that’s never sat right with me. With the inclusion of Acts 29, we are given a nice well-rounded finale to Luke’s biography and some interesting closure to Pontius Pilate as well. Join me as I continue my Lost Books of the Bible series on YouTube, reading from Acts 29, 3 Corinthians, and the Phoenix of Tertullian.

You can read along with these texts and more on our Sacred Scripture page. 

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

Read the 9/11 Interviews

Watch the Interviews