Washington, April 9 -- Rep. Don Bacon issued the following press release:
Last week, President Trump's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the Administration's Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) budget request, which proposes to cut NASA's overall budget by 23% and cut NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) by 47%. This request would also terminate more than 40 space missions, including the Mars Sample Return mission led by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a first-of-its-kind mission to return samples from Mars to Earth and unlock groundbreaking insights into the planet's history and the potential for past life.
Reps. Don Bacon (NE-02) and Judy Chu (CA-28), who co-Chair the bipartisan Congressional Planetary Science Caucus, released the...