Space station research faces axe as Nasa cuts $344m to save Moon and Mars quest, The Guardian

“They’re cutting hundreds of millions of dollars of life sciences research that has been planned, in some cases, for decades,” said Keith Cowing, a former Nasa scientist and now editor of the Nasa Watch web site. “Hundreds of contractors have been laid off at several research centres run by Nasa.”

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...