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Space & Planetary Science

Space Science Is No Longer A Safe Bet

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
January 10, 2006

Remarks by NASA Administrator Griffin to the American Astronomical Society

“In short, we who run NASA today are doing our very best to preserve a robust science program in the face of, frankly, some daunting fiscal realities that affect all domestic discretionary spending. These realities dictate that we set priorities; NASA simply cannot accomplish everything that was on our plate when I took office last April. In space-based astronomy, and in other areas, we will have to make tough trade-offs between maintaining current missions, of which there are 14 ongoing, and developing new capabilities. The astronomy community has faced this same issue with respect to ground based telescopes as well.”

NASA News Conference With Mike Griffin: Exploration Systems Architecture Study (Transcript) (20 Sept 2005)

“I think I just said this was not about taking money from the science programs for human space flight and it’s not. The science program has not–in our forward planning, we do not take one thin dime out of the science program in order to execute this architecture. It is about re-directing what we do in the human space flight program.”

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