President Donald Trump released a budget blueprint on Friday calling for a 23 percent cut to NASA's budget, two days after the agency launched four astronauts on the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years.
The White House requested a similar cut to NASA last year.
In a document explaining the NASA cuts, the Trump administration said it seeks to slash funding for "unnecessary and overpriced activities. " Under the White House plan, NASA will focus on the administration's priority of landing humans on the Moon before the end of Trump's term in office, then building a Moon base.
