Well, funding for science is also very much on the chopping block in the President's proposed

budget.

That includes cuts to NASA.

It's a fraught moment for the agency, particularly for those focused on Earth science and

not human space travel.

Just this weekend, President Trump announced he was withdrawing the nomination of his original

pick to lead NASA, billionaire Jared Isaacman.

Our Miles O'Brien has a look at all of this, starting with the proposed cuts.

That's one small step for man.

One giant leap for man cuts.

It would be the largest single-year budget cut in NASA's storied history, including the early 70s when the Apollo Moon program was winding down.

The Trump White House wants to reduce the $25 billion allocation for the space agency by 24 percent.

Space science would be cut nearly in half.

That would be sort of, I will say, almost extinction level for a lot of the space science

that we pursue.

Adam Reese is a professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University.

He and two colleagues won the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering the acceleration of our

expanding universe. They use the Hubble Space Telescope, along with ground-based instruments,

to collect their data.

I think people are awed and inspired by the mystery of space, what's out there.

These are, in the scheme of things, relatively modest investments for us as humans to do this

most ambitious thing, to try to understand the place in which we live.

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