Trump moves to shut down NASA missions that measure carbon dioxide and plant health
The move would shut off an important source of data for scientists, policymakers and farmers.| Sun Sentinel
The move would shut off an important source of data for scientists, policymakers and farmers.| Sun Sentinel
The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere.| text.npr.org
Earlier this year, the Trump administration revealed its proposed budget for NASA's fiscal year 2025, indicating brutal cuts of unprecedented proportions were coming. Now, the agency has released new data about the proposed budget, painting a dire picture of its future. As SpaceNews reports, the document reveals that thousands of jobs would be cut, and dozens of science missions would be on the chopping block. The cuts, the deepest year-over-year change since 1961, when adjusted for inflation...| Futurism
The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.| KCRW
Inflation and budget issues are threatening to hobble NASA’s most in-demand telescopes.| Astronomy Magazine
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NASA Headquarters has decided to postpone this event| NASA Watch
Posted: June 1, 2025 5:04 pm ET | Last Updated: June 2, 2025 6:09 pm ET | President Trump sent his full budget request to Congress on May 30 detailing the $6 billion cut he is proposing for NASA. The scope of the cuts to everything except human spaceflight is difficult to grasp. Meanwhile., Trump also withdrew the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA Administration, keeping the agency in limbo.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
“NASA’s budget request is just a going-out-of-business mode” without Isaacman.| Ars Technica
Any crewed lunar exploration program is a protracted and expensive effort that requires steadfast leadership, the antithesis of the Trump White House.| Jalopnik
