Under the proposed budget of President Trump, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration would largely become the National Moon and Mars administration, with an almost unique focus on getting astronauts to those two destinations.
The Trump administration proposes a budget of $ 18.8 billion for NASA, a decrease of 24 percent of $ 24.8 billion in the current budget year. The plan would introduce $ 1 billion in new investments for Mars, which would be aimed at fulfilling Mr Trump’s promise during his speech to the Congress in March to “Plant a flag” on Mars.
That budgetary change also corresponds to the priorities of Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX Rocket Company two decades ago with dreams of Dreams of One day settlers send settlers to Mars.
The budget proposal does not offer any details about how the $ 1 billion would be spent, or a timeline to get astronauts to Mars. Mr. Musk said he was to Mars de New gigantic space vehicle That SpaceX is currently developing – without anyone on board – at the end of 2026 and would probably look at NASA’s Mars – money to pay for that.
“This proposal includes investments to pursue exploration of the Moon and Mars at the same time, while they still give priority to critical science and technology research,” said Janet Petro, the acting NASA manager, in a statement.
Deep cuts would lower the expenditure elsewhere at NASA, especially the robot -like space sciences missions of the desk. Proposed cancellations include a mission to take with you Back Rock Monsters from MarsAnd Climate monitoring satellites. The Space Launch System and Orion Crew Capsule that astronauts will be canceled back to the moon After Artemis IIIThe first crew mission that would land near the South Pole of the Moon. Gateway, a small space station in a track around the moon, would also be canceled.
If established, “This is the biggest cutback for NASA in American history,” said Casey Dreier, the Chief of Space Policy at the Planetary Society, a non-profit organization that argues for space exploration. “This is a budget that says America leads the world in space, that we are a nation that knows inside.”
The budget plan also calls for the scaling of the activities at the International Space Station, with fewer astronauts on board and a closed research program. It also proposes the elimination of NASA’s training efforts, and portrays them as ‘waking up’. President Trump had tried to cancel NASA’s education efforts during his first term – as President Obama had for him – but in both cases the congress restored the money.
For aviation, the budget research would eliminate to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through aircraft.
The budget also proposes a reduction of more than $ 1 billion in ‘mission support’, and says that savings can be made by reducing the number of employee head counts, maintenance, construction and ‘environmental compliance activities’.
A report from the National Academies last SeptemberHowever, NASA called on considerably raising his expenses for upgrading his infrastructure, a large part of the 1960s dates.
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