America is preparing to land humans on the Moon while quietly proposing to terminate 53 science missions, lay off thousands of researchers, and cancel every partnership with Europe — and calling what

The White House’s fiscal year 2027 budget request for NASA, released on 3 April, proposes cutting the agency’s total funding from $24.4 billion to $18.8 billion, a reduction of roughly 23 percent. Within that, the Science Mission Directorate would be cut by 46 percent, from $7.25 billion to $3.89 billion. Adjusted for inflation, the proposed […]