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Topic: NASA budget for 2005
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Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 12-07-2004 02:55 PM
   
Looks like the US senate approved US $ 15.6 billion for 2005 ... an extra $ 500 million for shuttle Ops and extra $ 300 million for a Hubble servicing mission ... but still far away from the budget requested for a return to the Moon & Mars ...
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machbusterman
Member Posts: 1778
From: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Registered: May 2004
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posted 12-07-2004 03:23 PM
No-one should be surprised that the funding for a manned program hasn't been put in place yet... My guess is they'd like to have a few ideas on the drawing board before they have Congress award hundreds of billions of $'s to NASA. |
DavidH
Member Posts: 1217
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 12-07-2004 03:55 PM
Actually, the $16.2 billion which Congress approved for NASA's FY05 budget does include the funding requested for the Vision for Space Exploration. (With some exceptions, such as a decreased allotment for the planned robotic lunar orbiter mission).
The Vision does not require the investment of "hundreds of billions" of dollars in a single budget year, but rather relatively slight increases over current funding levels on a period of several years.
For more information: http://www.space.com/news/nasa_budget_041122.html ------------------
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