Obama Pledges to Find $2 billion for NASA

Obama vows to find $2bn for NASA, Orlando Sentinel

“But until Sunday, the democratic policy, while clearly ambitious, was lacking in details of how much an Obama administration would give to NASA, and where the funds to try to speed up development of a successor rocket to the space shuttle were going to come from. According to Nelson, the Obama campaign has pledged to find $2 billion for NASA by clawing back pork barrel earmarks, such as, Nelson said, “a highway in Alaska to nowhere.”

Evolving Obama now supports $2 billion more for NASA, Houston Chronicle

“The most important change in Obama’s past positions is that he now favors at least one additional space shuttle mission before it is retired. Nelson said Obama’s staff assured him that the presidential candidate now favors the congressional plan to add $2 billion to NASA’s budget.”

Barack Obama: Advancing the Frontiers of Space Exploration
McCain Space Policy Paper, earlier post
Earlier Election 2008 postings