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 Trumps beste venner er Elon Musk (SpaceX) og Bezos (Blue Origin) , begge med store interesser i satellittoppskytinger etc. (Red.)

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Trump admin proposes slashing NASA budget by 24%

The rumors about impending NASA budget cuts were well-founded, it turns out. The Trump administration released its proposed 2026 "skinny budget" today (May 2), laying out in broad strokes how it plans to allocate funding across federal agencies in the coming fiscal year. Reports had suggested that NASA would take it on the chin, and that is indeed the case: The skinny budget slashes NASA funding by $6 billion compared to enacted 2025 levels, from $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion -- a cut of 24%. That would be the biggest single-year cut to NASA funding in American history, according to the nonprofit Planetary Society.

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