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NASA: Waiting for the Hammer to fall

By catdynamics on January 12, 2007.

I never knew Brian May wrote that...

Via NASAwatch we find the following

..."We will find what we believe are the lowest priority half-billion dollars in content, and we'll extract it, across the agency," he says, stressing that does not mean programs at the core of the redirected U.S. space program as defined by President Bush almost three years ago.

That is Griffin, talking about how NASA will keep the Crewed Exploration Vehicle development on track if Congress sticks with a continuing resolution for the 2007 budget - which would keep NASA's budget at the 2006 level, with earmarks deleted.

Problem is the CEV development budget is ramping up and needs more funding to have any hope to stay on budget.

I wonder what will be found at the bottom to cut?

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The glimmer of hope is that Milkulski will want to give NASA more money. I am not sure how that will work, however.

I had an interesting discussion over the holidays with the former comptroller of the US Marine Corp. He said that running for an entire year on a continuing resolution was basically impossible. He figured that Congress will have to get to the budget at some point, if it is just to patch the cracks that the continuing resolution reveals.

Of course, YMMV, this is all hearsay, etc., etc.

By Brad Holden (not verified) on 12 Jan 2007 #permalink