Space & The Budget

5:16 pm EST February 26th, 2009 | News | 1 Comment

Important.

U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed a funding boost for NASA that provides more support for Earth sciences missions and aviation, while keeping the agency’s three space shuttles on target for a 2010 retirement.

NASA would receive $18.7 billion for the 2010 fiscal year under the budget proposal released by the White House on Thursday. That would be an increase from the $17.2 billion NASA received in 2008 and represents an overall boost of more than $2.4 billion for the space agency when coupled with the additional $1 billion it received in the recent economic stimulus bill.

The budget calls on NASA to complete International Space Station construction, as well as continue its Earth science missions and aviation research. Yet it also remains fixed to former President George W. Bush’s plan to retire the space shuttle fleet by 2010 and replace them with the new Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, which would fly astronauts to the space station and return them to the moon by 2020.

Now, I ain’t wild about going to the moon, but you take what you can get.

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One Response to “Space & The Budget”

  1. Parthenon says:
    February 27, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    If I have to wait until I’m 50 to see a manned Mars mission, I’m gonna be pissed. Moon base too.