Last week, I informed you about the threat of the demolition of many NASA space missions. The good news is that the White home administration's want will not be met. At least discipline won for now.
In an emergency turn of events, NASA's interim administrator, Sean Duffy, ordered the agency to work on the basis of a budget draft prepared by the home of Representatives, not this drasticly cutting spending, forced by the White House. This decision gives a minute of breath and hope to save nearly 20 technological missions which were threatened by the liquidation of the political dispute over funding.
As I mentioned last week, the future of many key NASA discipline programs, including legendary space probes, She's in question.. Given the forthcoming end of the fiscal year (30 September) and the deficiency of an adopted budget, The White home ordered the agency to prepare “closure plans” for about 24 technological missions. This was in line with the President's budget proposal, which assumed immense cuts for the agency.
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The White home proposal assumed to cut NASA's full budget by nearly 20%, from the current $24.84 billion to $11.81 billion. The most affected was the technological directorate, whose backing would fall from 7.33 billion to just 3.9 billion dollars. Meanwhile, the draft budget, which was created in the home of Representatives, keeps the agency's backing almost unchanged (24.84 billion), and spends much more on science, due to the fact that $6 billion.
The NASA administrator's decision to base the agency's plans on a much more favourable proposal from the home of Representatives is seen as a triumph for the technological community. It allows us to proceed to work on key missions and to extend the operation of probes already operating in space, specified as OSIRIS-APEX, which is to approach Apophis asteroid in 2029.
However, the situation remains unstable. It all depends on whether and in what form legislature will yet pass the budget for fiscal year 2026. Until then there is inactive a threat of paralysis over missions (when the budget cannot be established by 30 September). Nevertheless, for thousands of NASA scientists and engineers it is simply a minute of much needed relief.
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