NASA's Student Launch Canceled | NASA Education Budget Deleted in FY 2026

NASA's Student Launch Canceled | NASA Education Budget Deleted in FY 2026

"Student Launch" (Year 2000-2025) was a nine-month-long challenge that tasked student teams from across the U.S. to design, build, test, and launch a high-powered rocket carrying a scientific or engineering payload. It was a hands-on, research-based, engineering activity that culminated each year with a final launch in Huntsville, Alabama, home of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

NASA's entire education budget has been eliminated in its Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request. 

Learn more about this cancelled NASA Education program here: nasa.gov/studentlaunch

Moreover, NASA's total science budget is being cut nearly 50%. This will result in the cancellation of 19 active science missions and end several planned ones deemed crucial by the National Academy of Sciences, including those involving partnerships with international space agencies. Many eliminated science missions support irreplaceable Earth and climate science. NASA's new budget will become the smallest since 1961, when adjusted for inflation, according to The Planetary Society: 
https://www.planetary.org/press-releases/the-planetary-society-reissues-urgent-call-to-reject-disastrous-budget-proposal-for-nasa

Contact your representatives in the United States Congress, House and Senate, to express your concerns for NASA's future:
https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/

Review NASA's Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request (PDF) Documents:
https://www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budget-request/

Video Credit: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
Duration: 2 minutes, 33 seconds
Release Date: June 17, 2025

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