Bethany Ehlmann

The proposed 47% single-year cut to NASA’s science budget eviscerates our nation’s leadership in space science: ending missions already in space, halting those in build, and defunding telescopes and instruments of the future. President Trump’s first administration was strong on space exploration, so this incomprehensible, loser strategy from the Office of Management and Budget doesn’t even seem to match the President’s stated aims. It burns down in months U.S. capabilities that have taken decad