The Trump administration Prospts a 24% cut of NASA budget forTax year 2026with heavy consequences on many programs in progress: in fact the farewell to the Space station in lunar orbit gatewaythe cancellation of the program ‘Mars Sample Return‘To bring the champions taken to Mars back on earth, and still the early retirement for the Orion shuttle and for the rocket SLS After the Artemis III mission, the reduction of the astronauts and of the research on the International Space Station And cuts for scientific research and the personnel.
If the plan was approved by the congressThe budget of the US Space Agency would pass from 24.8 billion to 18.8 billion dollars. The cuts would be particularly huge for the spatial sciencethe Earth Sciences and traditional systems of human explorationwhich would undergo respectively a cut Of 2.3 billion dollars, 1.2 billion dollars and almost 900 million dollars.
Some high -profile NASA programs should be deleted, with heavy repercussions Also For the other spatial agencies that participate in it. Among these is the program ‘Mars Sample Return‘, a joint initiative with theEuropean Space Agency To bring the material collected on Mars by Rover Perseverance on earth on earth. There is then Gatewaythe space station in orbit around the moon to which theItaly gives a strong contribution: i components already productsreads a NASA note, they could be reused for other missions.
More generally, all the Artemis program would be redesignedwith theFarewell to the Space Launch System rocket and to the Orion capsule later Only three flights, with the aim of opening “the road to newst generation new generation commercial systems”.
In the document of the White House, out of the total of $ 18.8 billion of dollars intended for NASA, over 7 billion dollars are expected for lunar exploration and comes Introduced 1 billion dollars in New investments For programs focused on Mars. The priority of the Administration, reads the NASA note, is still the one “of return to the moon before China and of Send an American to Mars“.
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