A proposed fiscal year 2027 budget for NASA would cut the agency's overall funding by 23% and slash its science programs by nearly half, prompting strong opposition from the space community.
The Planetary Society, the world's largest independent space interest organization, issued a statement in response to the release of the FY 2027 top-line budget request for NASA, which would reduce the space agency's Science Mission Directorate from $7.25 billion to $3.9 billion — a 47% drop that advocates say would be the largest single-year cut to science funding in the agency's history, according to the statement.
