NASA Contemplating Budget Cuts for Hubble and Chandra Space Telescopes
NASA is exploring the possibility of reducing the budgets for two of its most prominent space telescopes, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope, amid broader funding challenges facing its astrophysics programs. Mark Clampin, the director of NASA’s astrophysics division, presented this consideration to the National Academies’ Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics on…