Have the Trump administration Issued a proposal To reduce NASA’s 2026 budget by almost a quarter, the size of the International Space Station staff and the amount of research conducted there. At the same time, it has determined a new funding, which will potentially benefit Elon Musk’s Space X by preferring human missions over Mars, and will be refused to “beat China on the moon”.
The proposed deduction is part of President Trump’s budget proposal for next year. It will reduce the ISS by 808 million, and will reduce the size of its staff and focus its “low research capacity …” important efforts for moon and Mars search programs. “It also decreases the space science missions by 2 2.265 billion, and it includes eliminating things like Mars’ sample Return Mission, according to which it will be achieved through human flights to the Red Planet.
At the same time, the proposal offers $ 1 billion on “Mars -based programs”, which has no details where the money will go. As if New York Times WritesMusk’s Space X “Permanent.” NASA will find financial support to help Mars in an unmanned flight of starchy, which Musk claims will start next year. Another $ 7 billion will be allocated for the lunar search, but it suggests that NASA’s SLS rocket and Orion capsule be removed in favor of commercial alternatives in the future. This Artemis will end the lunar gateway program after the III mission, According to NASA.
The project has reduced $ 1.161 billion from Earth Sciences, eliminating funds for things like “low -preferred climate monitoring satellites”. And it will reduce $ 143 million in STEM’s engagement programs, spending $ 346 million on “climate -based ‘green aviation” in favor of air traffic control and defense spending.
Space Exploration Advocate Casey Director of Space Policy at the Advocate Planet Society, Told New York Times This proposal is “the biggest only year for NASA in American history” and it indicates that “the United States guides the world in space, that we are a nation that is turning inside.”