Trump Admin to Slice NASA in Half and Cancel New Telescopes
a year ago
- #Space Exploration
- #NASA
- #Budget Cuts
- The White House plans to terminate billions in NASA missions, cutting its budget significantly.
- NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) budget would drop from $7.3 billion to $3.9 billion.
- Astrophysics budget would decrease from $1.5 billion to $487 million; planetary science from $2.7 billion to $1.9 billion.
- Funding for new telescopes, including the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, will be canceled.
- Congress could still intervene to rescue NASA, as the budget proposal is just the first step.