"This NASA budget claims to be ambitious in terms of human spaceflight but reduces its ability to actually carry it out."

Casey Dreier is the chief advocacy officer for the Planetary Society, an independent American nonprofit organization founded in 1980 that supports scientific research in astronomy. He discusses the potential implications for NASA of the budget proposal tabled by the Trump administration on May 30 .

This budget cut would be the largest in NASA's history. It would transform the agency in many ways, primarily for robotic missions, but also for aeronautics due to reduced spending on technology development. If implemented, it would be a historic restructuring of the agency, with serious consequences for scientific research and its technological capabilities.

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