Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/11/nasa-science-budget-cuts-trump/

Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan
The preliminary version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, known as a “passback,” would cut the agency’s science budget funding nearly in half.
April 11, 2025 at 9:54 a.m. EDT
By Joel Achenbach

NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions, according to two individuals with direct knowledge of the administration’s plan.

The budget plan, sent to NASA by the Office of Management and Budget, would give NASA’s Science Mission Directorate $3.9 billion, down from its current budget of about $7.3 billion, according to the individuals who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the details.

NASA’s astrophysics budget would take a huge hit, dropping from about $1.5 billion to $487 million. Planetary science would see a drop from $2.7 billion to $1.9 billion.

The Hubble and Webb space telescopes — which have been beaming views of deep space back to Earth — would remain supported under the proposal. However, no other telescope would be funded. That includes the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which has been designed to study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. The hardware of the Roman is in place and being integrated and tested at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Roman is scheduled to launch as early as September 2026.

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[Johnny2X2X]

1. NASA will be sold to Space X soon

All the tehcnology is worth $billions, Musk will get it for next to nothing.

[dalton99a]

2. +1. SpaceX to auction NASA moon rock collection - Musk to display most valuable samples in living room

[Swede]

3. Just change the name of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, to Nathan Grace American Space telescope.

Funding will actually increase.

[RoeVWade]

4. It's not like we should trust the Trump administration on science in any broad sense anyway.

However, if Musk proposes putting a bust of Trump on Mars though, suddenly we will have a billion dollars to waste.

[Traildogbob]

5. Musk is leaping around

Like a Chimpanzee on crack. 💰💰💰💰💰
Musk’s millions investment in GQP will make him 100’s of billions. All the stock market gamers in history will not get the return this asshole is getting. From OUR Taxes. He pays no taxes. Actually gets subsidies larger than the amount ALL SS recipients get over half a year.

[erronis]

6. Guardian article: Critics say Nasa faces 'extinction-level event' with budget plan, with climate research funding also t

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/11/trump-climate-science-nasa-noaa-cuts