The has taken a sledgehammer to 's 2026 budget, announcing deep cuts to research funding, termination of multiple missions and the allocation of $1 billion toward 's dream of sending humans to . The cuts include scrapping the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, which has already cost NASA billions and aims to bring samples collected from the Martian surface back to Earth to be studied. The budget proposal, released today, states that NASA will 'terminate unaffordable missions' such as MSR, adding that it is 'grossly overbudget' and that its goals can be achieved through human missions to Mars.
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