The Trump administration is planning to cut NASA's science budget nearly in half according to a budget proposal to Congress. As the Washington Post reports, NASA's Science Mission Directorate's current $7.3 billion budget could be cut down to a mere $3.9 billion. While the proposal has yet to be formally submitted to Congress, the cut could deal a devastating blow to the space agency's ongoing and future missions, including its next major space telescope and Mars Sample Return mission. NASA's $2.2 billion Earth Science budget could be more than halved, while planetary science could drop from $2.7 billion to $1.9 […]

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