“In addition to the immediate, beneficial stimulatory impacts of increasing NASA’s budget, the critically needed supplemental funding will revitalize long-term investments in our Nation’s future. Unless Congress takes significant steps today to ensure NASA’s success across all of its vital missions by providing appropriate funding for its broad array of responsibilities, we may very well relinquish America’s future leadership in civil and military aviation, Earth and Space Science, and Aerospace technology, leaving our children to look eastward as the European Union and China move quickly to capitalize on our complacency.”
Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member... More by Keith Cowing