NASA faces a proposed $6 billion agency-wide funding cut by the Trump administration, including a 47% reduction of science missions and activities.

President Donald Trump on Monday named Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to also serve as interim NASA administrator. Janet Petro, a former leader of the Kennedy Space Center, has been the agency's acting administrator since Trump became president on Jan.

NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding cuts.

It remains an open question as to whether NASA and the U.S. space program will survive the Republican president’s second term.

A letter released Monday from more than 150 NASA employees urged agency officials not to make deep budgetary cuts proposed by the White House, saying they would have “dire” consequences. “We are

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is about to perform double duty after President Donald Trump named him interim head of NASA.

The space agency is facing potentially disastrous budget cuts and staff reductions.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is about to perform double duty after President Donald Trump named him interim head of NASA.

appointed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as the interim administrator of NASA ... This potentially massive personnel loss dovetails with the new White House budget, which would cut NASA’s science budget nearly in half. Politico’s report added ...

Donald Trump has assigned Transport Secretary Sean Duffy a second job as interim caretaker of NASA after the president dumped his original choice to lead the space agency. Duffy has been locked in a war of words this year with Trump’s former space buddy,

President Donald Trump tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to serve as the interim administrator of NASA on Wednesday, July 9. The role has been vacant since Trump withdrew his initial nominee, billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman, at the end of May.