The Trump has called on NASA to cancel its „grossly expensive and delayed“ Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule after Artemis 3.
The Trump administration has released its proposed budget for next year, revealing massive budget cuts that could deal NASA’s space exploration and science efforts a devastating blow.
The agency’s budget would be slashed by 24 percent year over year, a difference of $6 billion, which is the biggest single-year cut in US history, according to the Planetary Society.
While space and Earth science funding would face massive lacerations, human space exploration could see its budget increase by roughly $1 billion in „new investments for Mars-focused programs“, according to the proposal, highlighting Trump’s desire to plant a flag on the Red Planet.
Notably, the Trump administration proposes canceling NASA’s „grossly expensive and delayed“ Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule after Artemis 3, the first attempt to return astronauts to the Moon’s surface in over half a century, which is tentatively scheduled for 2027.
