NASA Budget News
Some good news on the budget front: (Wired News - 2009 NASA Budget: Moon Missions on Track with Science and Climate Change Thrown In)
Yesterday, the White House released their 2009 NASA budget that Congress will amend, rework and hopefully pass by the end of the 2008 fiscal year. You can see some responsiveness to the science and environmental communities with increased dollars for the science directorate and two additional climate change monitoring missions added in. [...] Funding for the human lunar missions, the COTS program (which invests lightly in alternative commercial paths to Low Earth Orbit), and fulfilling our international commitments remained intact.
The Committee reviewed the budget yesterday, and all agreed (both sides of the isle and NASA administrator) that Bush fell far short of what he should have with the budget.
Posted by: www.actionforspace.com | February 14, 2008 at 08:03 AM
Thanks for your comment. That news is discouraging. I would think that the proper strategy would be to increase the budget so that Bush's last budget would set a benchmark for the next administration, either Democrat or Republican, who would then have to justify why they were lowering the budget when the time comes for them to submit a budget.
Posted by: Joel | February 14, 2008 at 10:19 AM