Politics & Government
Report: NASA Cuts Could Cost JPL 100s of Jobs
The proposed budget for NASA would include a cut to planetary science, which JPL specializes in.
Cuts to NASA's budget could directly affect the planetary science conducted at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, meaning the loss of hundreds of local jobs, the Pasadena Sun reports.
President Obama's $17.7-billion budget request for NASA for the 2013 fiscal year includes a $300-million cut to planetary science, the very work JPL specializes in.
That could mean a 20% reduction in NASA's planetary science budget and, at JPL, job losses in the hundreds. What's more, say proponents of robotic space exploration, the cuts would imperil the search for extraterrestrial life, one of the most vexing and enchanting questions faced by science, at the very moment answers seem tantalizingly near.
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