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Some parts of Trump’s proposed budget for NASA are literally draconian
"That's exactly the kind of thing that NASA should be concentrating its resources on."
New details of the Trump administration's plans for NASA, released Friday, revealed the White House's desire to end the development of an experimental nuclear thermal rocket engine that could have shown a new way of exploring the Solar System.
Trump's NASA budget request is rife with spending cuts. Overall, the White House proposes reducing NASA's budget by about 24 percent, from $24.8 billion this year to $18.8 billion in fiscal year 2026. In previous stories, Ars has covered many of the programs impacted by the proposed cuts, which would cancel the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft and terminate numerous robotic science missions, including the Mars Sample Return, probes to Venus, and future space telescopes.
Instead, the leftover funding for NASA's human exploration program would go toward supporting commercial projects to land on the Moon and Mars.
