The White House's 2026 budget proposal threatens dozens of active and upcoming science missions designed to explore the cosmos.

NASA faces a proposed $6 billion agency-wide funding cut by the Trump administration, including a 47% reduction of science missions and activities.

"NASA is being dismantled now, treating the President's budget request as marching orders rather than proposed legislation," Finch said. "Damage is occurring rapidly, daily. Although Congress is signaling bipartisan support to fund NASA, by the time they have an FY 26 budget passed, the damage will be widespread, fait accompli."

It remains an open question as to whether NASA and the U.S. space program will survive the Republican president’s second term.

Current and former NASA employees have co-signed a declaration protesting changes at the agency that some say pose a grave risk to astronauts.

NASA freezes SpaceX’s lunar lander cash due to protests from Blue Origin, Dynetics by Alan Boyle on April 30, 2021 at 4:44 pm April 30, 2021 at 5:43 pm Share 1.7k Tweet Share Reddit Email

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Blue Origin filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office April 26 over NASA’s decision to select SpaceX for the agency’s Human Landing System.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has denied protests that were filed by Blue Origin and Dynetics on Friday, The protests were filed by the companies in April after NASA selected SpaceX ...

Government Accountability Office denies protests of NASA-SpaceX lunar lander contract By William Harwood July 30, 2021 / 4:33 PM EDT / CBS News

Blue Origin and Dynetics filed protests April 26, 10 days after NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to develop a crewed lunar lander, based on the company’s Starship vehicle, and perform ...