A fully assembled SLS core stage is suspended 225 ft. in the air inside the High Bay 2 at Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building.
Credit: NASA
The Trump administration proposes to cut NASA’s $24.8 billion annual budget to $18.8 billion and end several flagship programs including the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, Orion deep-space crewed spacecraft and a U.S.-European effort to return samples from Mars. A summary fiscal 2026 budget...
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