Seven former leaders of NASA’s Science program urge Congress to reject the wasteful 47% cuts proposed in the White House’s FY 2026 budget proposal

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    5 days ago

    The already depressingly low NASA budget gets slashed in half to feed the ultra wealthy… God I hate Republicans more and more every day…

    Come on Cuba, do something special! Then we’ll have no choice but to toss more money at NASA to beat communists again!

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      Just an FYI, it’s not the whole NASA budget being cut in about half, I keep seeing people say this. I think it was something more like 25% overall budget cut. The science missions got hit the heaviest and got a roughly 50% cut.

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        Thanks for the clarification!

        Maybe one day we’ll actually be able to celebrate a 25% increase! although naturally that day will probably only come in the form of subsidizing corporate space ventures. :/