NASA face discounts for the missile program and the lunar space station in the Trump budget 2026

The administration of US President Donald Trump is seeking immediately for the main parts of the NASA program in favor of commercial alternatives and its business schedule, which focuses on Mars, and targets a group of existing projects in reducing a $ 6 billion proposal to the Public Space Agency budget for the next year.

“Skinny”-Outline-a copy of the proposed TROMP budget 2026, which was released on Friday, will lead to the abolition of the excessive budget in NASA Space launch (SLS), a giant missile built by Boeing and Nortrop Grumman, and the capsule of the Orion crew built by Lockheed Martin after its third mission in 2027 in the framework of the agency’s ARTEMIS program.

“The SLS missile (space launch system) and the Orion III capsule will pave the way for more commercial systems from the next generation of cost that will support NASA’s subsequent moon tasks,” NASA’s launch He said.

The proposal reduces 24 percent of the current United States budget of $ 24.8 billion in NASA, threatens to raise the active contracts that are defending it for years in Washington by a group of well -known NASA.

The budget also calls for a reduction in the gate, a space station that will be in the orbit of the moon and serve as a starting point for missions to the moon, and at the end of Mars. Canada, along with the European Space Agency, and Jaksa – the Japanese Space Agency – were all partners in the program.

In 2024, the Canadian Space Agency gave MDA space A billion dollar contract to build Canadarm3And that will be used on the gate.

To date, it is not clear what the proposed cuts for Canada can mean.

During his last term, Trump focused on the introduction of humans into Mars, the long -awaited destination for the CEO of Spacex ELON Musk, the outgoing adviser to the president who spent $ 250 million on Trump’s effort to return to the White House.

The budget summary said: “The budget clarifies the expensive and later -old missiles (SLS) and the Orion capsule after three trips,” noting the price of SLS per launch of $ 4 billion. He added that the cost of developing missiles of about 23 billion US dollars since 2010 is “140 percent for the budget.”