NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts -- The Register

[erronis]

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/11/nasa_to_silence_voyagers_social/

All about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience'

NASA is shutting down many of its social media accounts, including those dedicated to the Voyager mission and the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers.

It announced that posts would be coming to an end this week, with affected accounts, such as Voyager, pinning text along the lines of "Important Update: As part of @NASA's effort to streamline communications, this account will be archived in the coming weeks" to the top of their feeds.

To be clear, the Voyager mission itself is not affected, just the mission's social media presence.

One of the top comments on the X post noted "I'll miss your daily texts from space."

While the archiving of some accounts, such as @NASA_SLS and @NASA_Orion, has a certain logic, mothballing Voyager and the Mars rovers makes less sense.

After all, the current US administration is determined to cancel NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) unless certain US lawmakers have their way. However, Voyager will continue its mission, and the Mars rovers will keep on trundling regardless. In addition, the @MarsCuriosity feed currently has approximately four million followers, considerably more than the one and a half million of the @NASAMars account.

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[jls4561]

1. Totally in line with this administration's policies. Shut down arts, education and science. Force people to

be content with whatever bread and circuses the dear leader gives you. Eliminate anything that might bring joy.

[erronis]

2. "Eliminate anything that might bring joy." I'd add "and hope" to your sentiment.

Arts, science, education all give us hope that we can some day live in a better place.