Science Cut Update

Space Science: NASA Agrees to Review What’s on the Chopping Block (summary – subscription), Science

“NASA’s science chief has offered space and earth scientists half a loaf in response to withering complaints about cuts in the agency’s proposed 2007 budget. Even so, it’s a better offer than the one NASA Administrator Michael Griffin made last week to life and microgravity scientists: He announced a new timetable for finishing the international space station that will leave almost no room in the next 4 years for U.S. research projects.”