Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Signs of the times.
Image credit: NASA Watch/Keith Cowing

For an agency shooting for the Moon and onward to Mars, NASA in 2025 has been more on a roller coaster ride of proposed budget cuts, personnel layoffs, and potential elimination of science missions.

A key question: Have these various traumas changed NASA dramatically, and potentially permanently? 

Battle lines are being drawn and now Congress has to spin up their views as to the space agency’s overall stability and, indeed, its future. As for what’s ahead, it’s all sausage making – political style.

Image credit: Composite image by Ella Maru Studio for the National Academy of Sciences

The outcome for NASA is literally a to-be-determined matter of time and space.

For more details, go to my new Space.com story – “How NASA changed in 2025 — possibly forever” – at:

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/how-nasa-changed-in-2025-possibly-forever

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