How NASA’s proposed budget cuts could threaten the future of space exploration

How NASA’s proposed budget cuts could threaten the future of space exploration
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A tremendous effort is underway at NASA to send humans to Mars and return astronauts to the moon, including the flight  of Canadian Jeremy Hanson on Artemis II early next year. Meanwhile, every other research program at the space agency is facing cuts. The US administration has  proposed a 24 per cent cut  to NASA’s budget, which would make it the smallest NASA budget since before human spaceflight programs began in 1961.