Even as a triumphant moon flyby primes agency for a 2028 landing, Trump’s proposed budget cuts cast pall on US space program

Even as Integrity, the mission moniker for the Orion capsule of Artemis II, ascended into the heavens days ago, Donald Trump was announcing his intention to slash NASA’s budget by 23%, including a 46% cut for space science initiatives.

And the Artemis program that has run years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget offers no guarantees that the next, far harder stages will run as smoothly.

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    6 days ago

    So does anyone else remember when trump said they would have a moon base? Like the whole going back to the moon thing was kinda his thing?

    The world was looking at other space programs, but no usa needed to moon it, and now never mind space…