This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Baxter.

NASA. The NASA budget is up for review in all directions, especially by my colleague Bob Zimmerman.

Keeps the website behind the black. And we're going into the NASA budget.

I only measure that I'm most keen on the science part of the NASA budget

for those robot probes that are out there in the solar system and the ones to be.

Bob, very good evening to you.

Manned NASA is no longer compelling to me

because of the alternatives that are now created in commercial

science. But your analysis of the budget I welcome. What does it look like, Bob? I know they're...

Yeah, you're not going to like my analysis, John, because you're probably fall into the same boat

as most of what I call the propaganda pro-government press over the last weekend.

Late last week, several outlets, news outlets, published stories based upon unconcerned and

anonymous reports of Trump administration budget analysis for NASA.

And what that unconfirmed anonymous report said was that NASA,

that the Trump administration was reviewing NASA's budget

and considering massive cuts to its science budget across the board.

Budget cuts extreme that would cut that would eliminate things like the Mars sample return

mission and the Roman Space Telescope, which is set to launch in two years.

These are multi-billion dollar projects, but it also included major, major cuts across the board

on their science, their climate research, all that.

And then, of course, there was a full court press by almost every major news outlet,

pro-government news outlet, talking about how, and this is usual, whatever this cuts to the

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