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🚀 NASA Faces Steep Budget Cuts, One Space Meeting Has Already Been Scrapped

 
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"The lead time it takes to find a venue, speakers, sponsors, and all that goes into it may prohibit a 2026 gathering from happening."

- Paul Byrne, planetary scientist at Washington University in St. Louis in NASA Faces Steep Budget Cuts, One Space Meeting Has Already Been Scrapped

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