Draconian budget and staff cuts could mean another Challenger disaster, warn current and former NASA employees.

A group of scientists and NASA employees, current and former, have issued a public plea to interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in the form of the “Voyager Declaration”—an open letter urging the agency not to implement deep budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.

Document argues president’s proposed funding reductions will ‘compromise human safety, weaken national security and undermine the core NASA mission’