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NASA Budget: What to Cut, What To Save?

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
November 7, 2011
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Budget pressures squeeze the dreams of Mars explorers, Washington Post
“At a White House meeting during the last week of October, administration officials “were clearly not very keen on signing up” for unmanned Mars missions in 2016 and 2018, said Daniel Britt, who attended the meeting as head of the planetary science division of the American Astronomical Society. … White House officials said no decision to kill the Mars program has been made. The administration is deliberating how to mete out NASA’s uncertain budget, said Rick Weiss, a spokesman for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.”
NASA Funding Added to Must-pass Minibus, Space News
“NASA funding is among the differences House and Senate conferees must resolve before the two chambers can give final approval to the so-called minibus the week of Nov. 14. House appropriators voted this summer to fund NASA at $16.8 billion — about $1.6 billion below this year’s level — and recommended canceling the overbudget James Webb Space Telescope. The Senate bill, in contrast, would fund NASA at $17.9 billion and include additional money for Webb.”

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