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How NASA Might Change Under Donald Trump


The Trump transition team is looking for “big changes” at NASA—including some cuts.

Although the details remain in flux, the transition team reviewing NASA and its activities has begun to draft potential executive orders for changes to space policy under the Trump Administration. The transition team has been grappling with an agency that has a superfluity of field centers—ten spread across the United States, as well as a formal headquarters in Washington, DC—and large, slow-moving programs that cost a lot of money and have been slow to deliver results. One source said the space transition team has been working off of ideas that Trump has talked about publicly, including his interest in Mars.

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