Keith’s note: The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS), will host a hearing with Jared Isaacman on the President’s fiscal year 2027 budget request for NASA on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at 10:00 am EDT in Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 138. Livestream HERE.
Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member... More by Keith Cowing
So let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Isaacman is advocating for Pluto being redesignated a planet at the same time he’s advocating gutting planetary science (along with earth science). If I were a cynic, I would say he is doing the first to take attention away from the second. No, wait, I AM a cynic…