The president’s NASA budget slashes programs and cancels a powerful rocket upgrade

The president’s budget request for NASA maintains the administration’s focus on sending astronauts back to the Moon within the next decade, and it gives the space agency $21 billion for fiscal year 2020. But while that top-line budget is a slight increase from what the president requested for NASA last year, it’s ultimately a decrease from the $21.5 billion the agency actually received in 2019.Despite that, NASA is touting the request as good for the agency, claiming it’