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Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts


We’re still months away from these budget bills having a chance to become law.

Many scientists view this as an effort by the Trump administration to cancel as many NASA science missions as possible before Congress passes a budget for the upcoming fiscal year, Ars reported earlier this month. NASA would then procure commercial rides to the Moon on rockets and spaceships from companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, while the government's focus would pivot to mounting human missions to Mars. "For NASA, the bill reflects an ambitious approach to space exploration, prioritizing the agency's flagship program Artemis and rejecting premature terminations of systems like SLS and Orion before commercial replacements are ready," Moran said.

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