WASHINGTON — A space station research conference has been canceled and the future of a long-running planetary science conference is in doubt as NASA pulls back support for those events.

The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the organization that operates the International Space Station National Lab, announced June 4 that it was cancelling the upcoming ISS Research and Development Conference that was scheduled for the end of July in Seattle.

“The International Space Station National Laboratory, in close consultation with NASA, has determined that the current regulatory and budgetary environment does not support holding the International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) in 2025,” the organization stated.

It didn’t elaborate on the decision,

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