The approximate 20 percent budget cut could force the closure of the Goddard Space Flight Center and would see projects such as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope scrapped.

President Donald Trump’s proposed annual budget for NASA next year would nearly cut in half the agency’s science funding, while potentially cutting off money for other major initiatives like returning soil from Mars and a new space telescope,

In a preliminary budget proposal, the agency’s science programs would see a 50 percent reduction, with a 20 percent cut to NASA overall.