Earlier this year, the Trump administration revealed its proposed 2026 budget for NASA, a horrifying plan to chop up dozens of important science missions alongside thousands of jobs. The proposal suggested slicing the space agency's science budget in almost half, "nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science and exploration in the United States," as Planetary Society chief of space policy Casey Dreier told Ars Technica in March. And, as expected, the proposed cuts are proving incredibly unpopular among lawmakers. As Bloomberg reports, both Republicans and Democrats have voiced their discontent with Trump's budget request, rejecting it outright. "We rejected cuts that would […]