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Budget

House Committee on Science and Technology Hearing

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
March 15, 2007

FY08 NASA Budget Request Insufficient for Space Exploration Program

“In the years since, the Administration requests for NASA have come in lower, and unfortunately Congress failed to fully fund the FY2007 request. Everyone bears some blame for the funding shortfalls, but the point I want to stress is that NASA continues to hold to its original schedule for the Vision, but doing it with smaller budgets. Consequently, the stress on the agency is enormous.””

Opening Statement by Rep. Bart Gordon – House Committee on Science and Technology Hearing: NASA’s Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Request

“First, the FY 2008 budget request continues a pattern of Administration requests that fail to ask for the level of funding that the White House had said NASA would need to carry out the exploration initiative and its other core activities. Specifically, in the three years since the President announced his exploration initiative, the White House has cut NASA’s five-year budget plan by a total of $2.26 billion. And based on this year’s budget submittal, that shortfall will worsen by another $420 million in FY 2009.”

Opening Statement by Rep. Mark Udall – House Committee on Science and Technology Hearing: NASA’s Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Request

“I agree with Chairman Gordon’s assessment of the situation we are facing. It is going to be a tough year for space and aeronautics supporters to get the budgetary resources NASA needs, but we are going to try. We are going to try because NASA’s space and aeronautics programs are a very important component of the nation’s R&D enterprise, and we need to be investing more in those areasnot less.”

Statement of NASA Administrator Michael Griffin Before the House Committee on Science & Technology

“I am deeply concerned that the gap between the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2010 and our new U.S. human spaceflight systems does not grow longer, and I am asking for your help on this point. Full funding of NASA’s FY 2008 Exploration Systems budget request is critical to ensuring the gap between retirement of the Space Shuttle and the new U.S. human spaceflight capability does not grow longer. As the CAIB report observed, “this approach can only be successful… if the U.S. government is… to commit the substantial resources required to implement it.”

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