The US government plans to cut NASA’s budget and shift its focus to moon landing and Mars

According to recent reports from foreign media such as The New York Times, the US government has proposed a plan to cut NASA’s budget by approximately $6 billion. At the same time, the plan will also introduce a $1 billion investment for Mars exploration projects.
According to reports, the US government’s new budget proposal shows that NASA’s future missions will almost exclusively focus on sending people to the moon and Mars. This means that NASA will reduce research funding for many projects such as space science and Earth observation, and shift its focus entirely towards these two goals.
According to the latest budget proposal from the US government, NASA will receive $18.8 billion in funding for the next fiscal year, a reduction of approximately 24% from the current $24.8 billion.
According to CNBC, NASA has released documents stating that it will allocate over $7 billion for lunar exploration and “introduce $1 billion in new investments for Mars focused projects.
The New York Times pointed out that this shift is also highly aligned with the vision of Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX.
Although the budget draft does not specify the specific use of the $1 billion and does not disclose a timeline for human landing on Mars, it is widely believed that the relevant funds may be used to support SpaceX’s Mars project.
NASA stated in a statement, “This proposal aims to simultaneously advance lunar and Mars exploration while still prioritizing support for critical scientific and technological research
NASA also stated that the agency will need to “streamline” its workforce, information technology services, facility maintenance, and terminate multiple “unaffordable” missions, while reducing scientific missions for “financial responsibility”.
The space policy director of the American Planetary Society, Dreyer, pointed out that if the budget is passed, “this will be the largest single year budget cut NASA has ever faced in American history… The signal of this budget is that the United States will no longer lead the global space industry, and we will turn inward