President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for next year calls for a decrease to NASA’s budget by more than $6B, Sana Pashankar and Loren Grush of Bloomberg report. The White House calls on NASA to phase out the “grossly expensive and delayed” Boeing-built (BA) Space Launch System rocket and Lockheed Martin (LMT) Orion crew capsule after just three flights, according to Bloomberg.
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