Editor’s note: Word has it that Mike Griffin and his entourage left JSC last night to fly back to Washington, DC. He did this so he could meet with White House staff on NASA’s reclama to the FY 2007 budget that NASA is apparently going to get.Griffin reportedly made a last minute pitch to get a 9% budget increase instead of the 4% OMB gave him last week when it sent the FY 2007 budget passback to NASA. Stay tuned.

FY 2007 Budget Preview

“FY 2006 16,456.3 – FY 2007 17,897.7 – Delta 8.8%”

More Insight Into NASA’s FY 2007 Budget

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