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The Prototype: NASA Budget Cuts Threaten Scientific Discovery
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at potential first signs of life on another world, an FDA greenlight for ...
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Bipartisan US Planetary Science Caucus 'alarmed' by Trump's possible plans to slash NASA budget and block Mars Sample Return
In response to reports of the Trump administration aiming to slash NASA's 2026 science budget by nearly half, US Planetary ...
NASA's most senior astronaut returns to Earth with 2 cosmonauts
Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, marked his 70th birthday by landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan after 220 days in ...
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Bipartisan caucus criticizes proposed NASA science budget cuts
The bipartisan co-chairs of a congressional caucus have criticized proposed cuts in NASA’s science programs, marking the ...
Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
According to the "passback" documents given to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency's science programs would receive ...
Maryland leaders urge Trump administration not to cut funding at NASA flight center
A group of Maryland lawmakers will tour the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Will the US hand space leadership to China by pulling Nasa out of Mars race?
Experts contrast Washington’s budget threat to Martian sample return programme and clear goals for Tianwen-3 mission and ...
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NASA faced with massive budget cuts in White House proposal
In a preliminary budget proposal, the agency’s science programs would see a 50 percent reduction, with a 20 percent cut to ...
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Five key climate and space projects on Trump’s chopping block
Preliminary copies of some of the US government’s spending plans suggest that President Donald Trump’s administration intends ...
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International Space Station enters riskiest period, NASA ‘deeply concerned’ over safety
A NASA official has warned that if there is an unplanned deorbit of the ISS, the risk to the public from debris will increase ...
NASA faces massive budget cuts from Trump administration
The new US government wants to cut 20% overall and 50% in scientific research. This would mean the end of important NASA ...
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Proposed NASA Budget Cuts ‘Would Decimate American Leadership in Space’
the Trump White House shared the draft version of its budget request for NASA with the space agency. This initial version of the administration's budget request calls for an approximately 20 ...