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FY2026 NASA Historical Budget with Proposed Cut Context

Adjusted for inflation, the FY2026 White House budget proposal for NASA would provide the smallest budget for the space agency since 1961.

Never has a White House budget proposed this scale of budget cut, this quickly. Should it be implemented, NASA's budget would fall to its lowest level since Alan Shepard became the first American in space.

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