Weeks after NASA’s first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years ended to great fanfare, one might expect its leader to be enjoying something of a victory lap. Instead, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman spent much of the past week in hearings on Capitol Hill defending the Trump administration’s proposal to cut the space agency’s budget by 23% for fiscal year 2027.
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