According to an early budget proposal that leaked earlier this year, the Trump administration is planning to cut NASA's science budget nearly in half — "an extinction-level event" for science at the space agency. As Scientific American reports, the cuts could risk canceling NASA's follow-up to its groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. For years, scientists have been hard at work on the observatory, nearing final integration and testing, before moving it to Cape Canaveral, Florida for launch. But the latest budget proposal, if approved by Congress, could be a death knell for the already-built […]

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