ISS Conference Scrapped as NASA Budget Cuts Threaten Crew and Cargo

The International Space Station (ISS) still remained in orbit before retiring in orbit for several years, but the future of the orbital laboratory is for a little martyr.

The Development Center of Science (CASIS), which works on the ISS National Laboratory, canceled the upcoming space station research conference, Spacenews declare. The ISS Research and Development Conference would be held in Seattle in Seattle in late July, but the Casis will be held declared After consulting NASA this week, the current regulation and budget surroundings are not supported in the annual conference this year. “

The announcement comes a bit more than a month since released The so-called fishing budget of the current management, In 2026, the Budget of NASA is $ 6 billion in $ 6 billion in the agency, 24% less than the current $ 24.8 billion budget. The budget is expected to be replaced by a very commercial space station in 2030.

According to the budget offered for 2026, the financing for ISS may be reduced from $ 1.24 billion to $ 920 million. “The reduced research power of the station will be directed to critical efforts for months and Mars intelligence programs.”

During the briefing in May, NASA ISS program manager Dana Weigel, the space agency has been found to have a resource problem related to the space station before the proposal of the 2026 budget. “The station has been encountered by the aggregate multi-year budget reduction,” Weigel quoted As he said about the word. “It’s the problem we are driving today. It has left us with some budget and resource problems that resulted in less downloads.”

The loads include materials for aircraft crew members. For more than two decades, the crew of at least four NASA astronauts in the ISS, with the international crew members from Russia, Japan, Canada and other countries. NASA flew to four or five cargo mission in the year, but the agency only plans the potential for only three drops in 2025. “We appreciate the potential for three crews,” he said. “Today is something we are working and trying to evaluate today.” NASA, previously thinks about six to eight months of missions to Ars Technica, Ars Technica declare.

Meanwhile, five commercial spacecraft, including Orbital Rif, Axiom Station and Starlab, are currently in work, but not ready to host astronauts in low ground orbit. ISS will leave a large space to fill in a sustainable existence of orbital science above the ground surface.