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Casey Dreier

Unprecedented. Unstrategic. Wasteful.

Casey Dreier

The White House has put forward a radical, wasteful proposal for NASA. We have the data to prove it.

Asa Stahl

Proposed NASA cuts would cancel dozens of space missions — including spacecraft already paid for, launched, and making discoveries.

Casey Dreier

NASA cuts loom.

Casey Dreier

NASA cuts loom.

Casey Dreier

A potential extinction-level event for NASA science.

Casey Dreier

Your monthly guidestar to space politics and policy is back.

Casey Dreier

Weeks before the new fiscal year, Congress still hasn't finalized NASA's 2025 budget.

Jack Kiraly

NASA is underfunding planetary exploration relative to recommendations made by the National Academies Decadal Survey report, resulting in mission delays and cancelations.

Jack Kiraly

An analysis of the U.S. Senate's FY 2025 budget request for NASA.

Casey Dreier

NASA has canceled VIPER, a rover designed to seek out water ice and other resources in the lunar south pole.

Jack Kiraly

If passed, it would be the first standalone NASA authorization since 2017.

Casey Dreier

The House would provide a 1% increase to NASA while shifting funding toward larger programs, leaving significant budgetary holes in smaller programs.

Kate Howells

Space science costs money. Here's why it's worth the investment.

Casey Dreier

Federal spending caps and inflation take a bite out of NASA's ambitions.

Casey Dreier

Funding for the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, support for VERITAS, and a second lease on life for Mars Sample Return were all included in the final congressional budget for NASA in 2024.

Casey Dreier

A battle over the future of Mars Sample Return is taking a toll on NASA’s workforce.

The Downlink

Terminators abound this week in space, and we’ll be back to Mars if NASA gets the budget it needs.

Casey Dreier

The House has yet to weigh in. And much can still happen before this threat is realized.

Casey Dreier

What's going on with Mars Sample Return?