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America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life

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The U.S. space agency is facing a funding and personnel crisis that the Planetary Society has called “an extinction-level event” The proposed 2026 budget for NASA 's Science Mission Directorate is the greatest threat to hopes of future grand discoveries, including finding life on other worlds.

The president’s budget also calls for an aggressive push to land humans on both the moon and Mars .

John Avlon : NASA 's budget is a waste of time and resources.

He says the agency will be set back decades more into the future by cutting funding to young researchers.

Avlon says NASA 's can-do spirit and willingness to dream like no other organization in the world.