Starving Science to Pay For Exploration
Meanwhile, Back on Earth – NASA climate-change research should not suffer because the president wants to go to Mars, Editorial, Washington Post
“NASA is facing a real fiscal crisis. Even though the White House is demanding more, it hasn’t given the space agency the funding it needs to build a launcher for the moon mission, pay an unexpectedly large bill for repairing the space shuttle and do everything else it committed to before Mr. Bush’s Mars announcement. According to the space agency, NASA is diverting a little over $3 billion from its science research budget over five years.”