Overview
- In a new op-ed, Bill Nye says the administration’s budget plan from the Office of Management and Budget would end 53 NASA Science missions, discard more than $13 billion already invested, and stop work on most future projects.
- He warns the proposal would also scrap NASA’s STEM outreach program that helps students and teachers across the country.
- Nye calls for a public push and a "Save NASA Science" campaign in Washington to pressure Congress to block the cuts.
- His appeal follows the Artemis II crew’s splashdown, which marked the first human trip to the Moon since the Apollo era in 1972.
- Critics argue the cuts would erode U.S. space leadership and harm jobs and partnerships, and Nye cites NASA’s roughly $75 billion in annual economic output and support for over 300,000 jobs.