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	NASA shelves climate satellites - The Boston Globe
		NASA is canceling or delaying a number of satellites designed to give scientists critical information on the earth's changing climate and environment.
		And in its 2007 budget, NASA proposes significant delays in a global precipitation measuring mission to help with weather predictions, as well as the launch of a satellite designed to increase the timeliness and accuracy of severe weather forecasts and improve climate models.
		A NASA earth science official acknowledged that the proposed earth science cuts are steep, and said the agency is attempting to replace some of the funding.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/06/09/nasa_shelves_climate_satellites (1116 words)

	NASA - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		NASA's early programs were research into manned spaceflight, and were conducted under the pressure of the competition between the USA and the USSR (the Space Race) that existed during the Cold War.
		NASA had won the space race, and in some senses this left it without direction, or at the very least without the public attention and interest that was necessary to guarantee large budgets from Congress.
		Budget cuts (in part due to the Vietnam War) brought about the end of the program, as did a desire to develop a reusable space vehicle.
	open-encyclopedia.com /NASA (1720 words)

	Budget cuts may delay shuttle replacement - space - 05 February 2007 - New Scientist Space
		NASA may not be able to launch the space shuttle's replacement by 2014 as promised, according to the agency's 2008 budget request to Congress.
		That is because Congress failed to pass the FY2007 budget request last year and looks likely to vote for a House plan to fund most agencies at their 2006 levels for 2007, meaning NASA would lose $545 million in expected funding for 2007 (see Budget bungle costs NASA half a billion dollars).
		NASA officials were hesitant to give numbers for how they would deal with the lower amounts if the Senate votes next week to keep the 2007 budget at 2006 levels.
	space.newscientist.com /article/dn11112-budget-cuts-may-delay-shuttle-replacement.html (782 words)

	House Appropriations Budget Hearing 2/26/97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		NASA and Russian teams are now working technical details of the capability of the FGB to meet NASA's requirements, and they will provide their recommendations to RSA General Director Koptev and me in late February.
		NASA and several partner agencies are planning a series of regional workshops in partnership with regional authorities and local universities to look at hydrology in the Southeast, and perhaps fisheries in the Northwest, and agriculture in the MidWest.
		NASA also is developing technologies that could lower both the manufacturing and operating cost of new aircraft, resulting in better U.S. competitiveness and ultimately lowering airfares to the traveling public.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /congress/budget1.html (9778 words)

	Aerospace Daily STORY
		NASA's fiscal year 2006 budget request would boost funding for space exploration to $3.165 billion from $2.684 billion in FY '05, while putting the agency's aeronautics budget on a fairly steady decline through FY '10.
		NASA is requesting $852.3 million for aeronautics research in FY '06, down from $906.2 million in FY '05 (see chart on Page 7).
		NASA is requesting $5.476 billion in FY '06 for its science mission directorate, down from $5.527 billion in FY '05, although it is scheduled to bounce back up to $5.96 billion in FY '07 and continue increasing through FY '09.
	www.aviationnow.com /avnow/news/channel_aerospacedaily_story.jsp?id=news/NASABUDGET02085.xml (449 words)

	Budget of the United States Government, FY 2006
		NASA plans to return humans to the Moon by 2020 to learn how to live and work over the long periods of time that will be required for human visits to more distant locations.
		NASA plays a major part in the interagency Climate Change Science Research Program, contributes to the international initiative on the Global Earth Observing System of Systems, and has pioneered new methods to improve forecasting of the weather, monitoring of forest fires, and tracking of the spread of pollutants.
		NASA is examining configurations for the Space Station that meet the needs of both the new space exploration vision and our international partners using as few Shuttle flights as possible.
	www.whitehouse.gov /omb/budget/fy2006/nasa.html (1972 words)

	U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		NASAâs FY 2005 budget will increase by $1 billion over 5 years, when compared with the Presidentâs FY 2004 plan; that is an increase of approximately 5 percent per year over each of the next 3 years and approximately 1 percent for each of the following 2 years.
		NASA does not plan to pursue new Earth-to-orbit transportation capabilities, except where necessary to support unique exploration needs, such as those that could be met by a heavy lift vehicle.
		NASA is grateful for the hard work of this Committee in shaping this legislation to provide the necessary flexibilities to better manage the NASA workforce.
	appropriations.senate.gov /hearmarkups/record.cfm?id=219003 (3550 words)

	SPACE.com -- NASA's 2004 Budget Request to be Released Without Fanfare
		NASA still intends to send its 2004 budget request to Congress and release copies to the public on Monday, but without the usual fanfare and officials briefings, agency officials said Saturday.
		NASA officials said in late 2002 that the agency planned to increase the shuttle flight rate to five missions per year.
		NASAs 2003 budget, like the budgets of most federal government agencies, is currently tied up in a $400 billion omnibus bill that the U.S. Senate recently sent to the House of Representatives.
	www.space.com /news/budget_nasa_030202.html (865 words)

	Aerospace Daily STORY
		NASA's fiscal year 2005 budget request lays out the agency's spiral development plan for the proposed Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), which would be produced in three production blocks with accompanying demonstration flights starting in 2008.
		NASA plans to develop the vehicle under the name "Project Constellation," and is requesting $428 million for the effort in FY '05.
		Before the development of the administration's new vision, NASA was facing a White House-mandated spending freeze that would have leveled the agency's annual topline budget at roughly $15 billion until at least FY '09, according to Administrator Sean O'Keefe.
	www.aviationnow.com /avnow/news/channel_aerospacedaily_story.jsp?id=news/cev02044.xml (696 words)

	NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
		NASA also has an information technology architecture in place that it is using to guide its investments and strengthen its IT security and project justifications.
		For instance, NASA considered technical performance, technical risk, and marginal scientific benefit in a recent study to determine the marginal cost of optimizing the viewing capability of a space telescope planned for launch early in the next decade.
		NASA is one of 12 major research and development (RandD) agencies that plans, manages, and assesses its RandD programs consistent with the RandD Investment Criteria, which are discussed in detail in the Research and Development chapter in the Analytical Perspectives volume.
	www.whitehouse.gov /omb/budget/fy2005/nasa.html (2969 words)

	NASA's new budget blows it. - By Gregg Easterbrook - Slate Magazine
		NASA wants to keep pouring billions of dollars into the shuttle, the space station, and the White House's moon-base project—which benefit no one other than NASA bureaucrats and aerospace contractors—while eliminating many projects to study climate conditions on Earth.
		NASA wants to sustain the astronaut corps, even at the cost of pretending a moon base makes sense when every NASA official knows it will be a hole to pour money down.
		The NASA budget also delays by years the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission, which would allow precise tracking of rainfall, especially in places where there are now only estimates, such as over the oceans.
	www.slate.com /id/2138943 (1644 words)

	NASA budget increases focus on moon trips - Space.com - MSNBC.com
		NASA officials, however, are quick to point out that the $16.792 billion budget request amounts to a 3 percent increase if $350 million in hurricane-recovery money Congress added to NASA’s 2006 budget is left out of the equation.
		NASA officials say the agency still expects to field the Crew Exploration Vehicle in 2012 but no later than 2014, the deadline President Bush set when he called for retiring the shuttle and building a replacement spacecraft that could ferry crews to the international space station and eventually carry astronauts to the moon.
		NASA is asking for $4 billion for the space shuttle program for 2007, about $700 million less than the agency expects to spend this year as it scrambles to ready Discovery for its second flight since the Columbia shuttle disaster in 2003.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11203481 (527 words)

	Dollars From Heaven: NASA spending hits wide area including Pa., W.Va. and Ohio
		NASA pumps lots of money into the national economy, and virtually every state in the union reaps some benefit from space program spending or from spinoff companies that are based on space program research.
		Last year, NASA pumped a total of $11.2 billion into companies, nonprofits, universities and research centers located in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
		NASA started operations in Houston in 1961, during the infancy of the American space program.
	www.post-gazette.com /localnews/20030216nasa0216p1.asp (953 words)

	NASA -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The program ended because of budget cuts (in part due to the (A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States) Vietnam War) and the desire to develop a reusable space vehicle.
		The shuttle was not all good news for NASA – flights were much more expensive than initially projected, and even after the 1986 (additional info and facts about Challenger disaster) Challenger disaster highlighted the risks of space flight, the public again lost interest as missions appeared to become mundane.
		The strength of their cooperation on this project was even more evident when NASA began relying on Russian launch vehicles to service the ISS following the 2003 (additional info and facts about Columbia disaster) Columbia disaster, which grounded the shuttle fleet for well over a year.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/nasa3.htm (3440 words)

	NASA's Budget: Back to the Future - and to Basics \| SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
		Unlike the budget briefings of previous years this one was surprisingly devoid of numbers - this despite O'Keefe's avowed penchant as a budget wonk for using numbers to describe things.
		While NASA's budget in an overall numeric sense comes very close to what the President requests each year, Congress manages to tweak the details to suit the whims of their constituents.
		NASA's Chief Scientist, Kathie Olsen, was recently nominated to a senior position in the White House at the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
	www.spaceref.com /news/viewnews.html?id=429 (4174 words)

	NASA budget
		NASA's budget, of about $14 B, was thus about 32% the size of the VA's budget (3rd column).
		NASA's budget, of about $14 B, was thus about 3% the size of what all consumers spent on groceries that year (3rd column).
		Ultimately, the magnitude of the dollar figures for any given fiscal year are not important when calculating the percentage of the total federal budget NASA received for that year (assuming, of course, that the magnitudes of NASA expenditures and total federal expenditures are the same for that year).
	www.richardb.us /nasa.html (1099 words)

	CNN.com - NASA budget meets trouble in Congress - Apr 28, 2004
		NASA is seeking $16.2 billion for 2005, an $866 million increase over the agency's 2004 budget.
		NASA's new vision calls for completing the space station by 2010 and then retiring the space shuttle so that funding for those two programs can be shifted toward the new exploration goals.
		Boehlert said given current federal budget deficits and competing spending priorities, NASA's sought 5.6 percent increase does not stand much of a chance in a year when total non-defense discretionary spending is not likely to increase by more than a half percent.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/space/04/27/nasa.budget/index.html (1102 words)

	Exploration Funding Up in NASA FY06 Budget Request
		NASA's budget for exploration would grow substantially, while its science funding would drop slightly, in the FY 2006 budget request released by the White House on Monday.
		According to NASA budget documents, "The newly organized Science Mission Directorate (SMD)...seeks to understand the origins, evolution, and destiny of the universe and to understand the nature of the strange phenomena that shape it.
		NASA budget documents state: "The role of the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) is to develop a constellation of new capabilities, supporting technologies, and foundational research that enables sustained and affordable human and robotic exploration.
	www.aip.org /fyi/2005/019.html (904 words)

	budget - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about budget (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		National budgets set out estimates of government income and expenditure and generally include projected changes in taxation and growth.
		Interim budgets are not uncommon, in particular, when dramatic changes in economic conditions occur.
		His plan, in its simplest form, was to revise taxation and lower it in a way that should not diminish the revenues of the State, and to obtain, from a budget equal to the budgets which now excite such rabid discussion, results that should be two-fold greater than the present results.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /budget (226 words)

	UCAR Office of Government Affairs
		The FY 2005 NASA budget request comes on the heels of President Bush's January 14th speech outlining his vision for man's return to the moon and potentially Mars and beyond.
		NASA states that this reduction is a function of several Earth science satellite missions moving from development into operations as well as a lack of earmarks present in the FY 2004 budget.
		NASA would discontinue development of the Orbital Space Plane and the Next Generational Launch System to defray some of the costs of the new vehicle (expected to be roughly $6.6 billion over five years).
	www.ucar.edu /oga/html/budget/fy05_nasa.html (2464 words)

	Columbia Coverage - Budget Hearing
		Earth science is a critical NASA mission of enormous scientific utility and vital to sorting out some key questions of practical as well as intellectual consequence such as the nature of global climate change.
		I noticed in the budget, and I mentioned this to you before, that it seemed to be a rather expensive project going to the ice moon of Jupiter.
		And the proposal is about a new strategic direction for NASA that we have developed over the course of the last nine months and how we plan to shift resources towards longer term goals outlined in the mission statement and the strategic plan therein.
	www.ksc.nasa.gov /Columbia/dc0228budget.htm (15392 words)

	AAAS R&D Funding Update on R&D in NASA FY 2007 House Appropriations - June 26
		NASA’s total budget of $16.7 billion in the FY 2007 House appropriation would be just $51 million or 0.3 percent more than the current year, although the increase would be higher if FY 2006 emergency funds to repair hurricane-damaged NASA Shuttle facilities are excluded (see Table).
		NASA is responsible for 10 percent of all federal support for basic and applied research with far larger roles in key fields.
		NASA is the second largest federal sponsor of physical sciences behind the Department of Energy, and is by far the leading sponsor of astronomy research with more than 70 percent of the federal total.
	www.aaas.org /spp/rd/nasa07h.htm (1913 words)

	NASA budget fiasco reaches new depths - 21 December 2001 - New Scientist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		NASA's budgetary fiasco has reached the stage where researchers are squabbling over amounts that are "not even peanuts, but the salt on one peanut" compared to the multi-billion dollar overruns on the International Space Station.
		The flash point was a NASA decision to stop spending $550,000 a year to run a deep-space radar system at the 305-metre Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.
		The root problem is that gave NASA no extra money in 1998 when it asked the space agency to track down 90 percent of all potentially hazardous objects in the decade through to 2008.
	www.newscientist.com /article/dn1727-nasa-budget-fiasco-reaches-new-depths.html (561 words)

	USATODAY.com - Budget would squeeze NASA spending (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Bush, who two years ago called on NASA to recapture its former glory by mounting an ambitious program to return astronauts to the moon, is asking Congress to give the space agency a minimal raise.
		NASA Administrator Michael Griffin characterized the spending request as a 3.2% increase after subtracting $349.8 million from the fiscal 2006 total.
		NASA still intends to have a new Crew Exploration Vehicle ready sometime between 2010 and 2014, Griffin said.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2006-02-06-nasa-budget_x.htm?POE=TECISVA (537 words)

	NASA Budget Cuts Plan to Service Hubble, Sources Say (washingtonpost.com)
		NASA is scrapping plans to service the Hubble Space Telescope, either with the space shuttle or with a robot repairman, a decision likely to set up a fresh confrontation with Congress over the fate of the orbiting observatory.
		Sources said that the White House, in consultation with NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, had decided to eliminate the Hubble funding from the 2006 federal budget because the cost of servicing is expected to exceed $1 billion.
		NASA spokesman Glenn Mahone declined comment, saying that "we'll be prepared to discuss any possible programmatic impacts" after Feb. 7.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A27653-2005Jan21.html (438 words)

	Hearing Charter
		NASA’s FY 2004 budget request is $15.5 billion which is a 3.1 percent increase over last year’s request and less than a 1 percent increase from the FY 2003 appropriation of $15.3 billion.
		NASA has provided the Committee with FY 2003 request numbers that have been adjusted to reflect “full cost” in order to facilitate comparisons with the FY 2004 budget request.
		NASA failed its FY 2001 audit last year but was issued a clean opinion on its financial statement for FY 2002.
	www.house.gov /science/hearings/full03/feb27/charter.htm (3310 words)

	SPACE.com -- NASA 2006 Budget Presented: Hubble, Nuclear Initiative Suffer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		NASA's 2006 budget request, which is headed to Congress Feb. 7, keeps many of the agency's space exploration goals on track, but a number of high-profile efforts have been canceled, postponed or scaled back.
		NASA is still requesting $320 million to continue nuclear power and propulsion work in 2006, but that is substantially lower than the roughly $500 million the agency had planned to spend based on last year's five-year budget projection.
		NASA Comptroller Steven Isakowitz, briefing reporters ahead of the formal budget release, said the $1.1 billion the agency is seeking is enough to keep development of the Crew Exploration Vehicle on track for a 2014 delivery.
	www.space.com /news/nasa_budget_050207.html (799 words)

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