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OBAMA’S NEW NASA FUNDING IS VITAL TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND AMERICAN LEADERSHIP

BUSINESS WIRE 2-3-2010

ORGITAL SCIENCES CORPORATION STATEMENT ON NASA’S NEW DIRECTION, DULLES

Under a new five-year program for the 2011-2015 period, NASA intends to stimulate the development of advanced technologies and new business models, building the foundation for 21st Century solar system exploration, Earth climate monitoring and environmental protection, and next-generation aerospace workforce inspiration and education. By working in innovative new partnerships with U.S. industry and academic institutions, NASA will maintain America’s leadership in space while also contributing substantially to our country’s economic well-being.

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NASA LOSING FUNDING SUSTAINABILITY – OBAMA WON’T PUSH FOR NEW MONEY

HOUSTON CHRONICLE 1-26-2010

FLAT BUDGET LIMITED GOALS MAY BE IN NASA’S FUTURE, BERGER

Far from getting the $3 billion more each year that experts suggest NASA needs for meaningful human spaceflight, President Barack Obama is expected to offer little new money to the space agency when his budget is released Monday.

Although there’s no official word from the White House or NASA, space policy analysts and legislators say it’s likely the space agency’s budget will remain “flat” for the coming year, potentially leaving humans stuck in near-Earth orbit for the foreseeable future.

“If that happens NASA may have to get out of the human spaceflight business, because the money just isn’t going to be there,” said Brett Silcox, an associate director with the National Space Society, a leading space advocacy group.

UIL – NASA FUNDING TRADEOFF WITH SOCIAL SERVICES

OBAMA MUST BALANCE NEW PRIORITIES SUCH AS SOCIAL SERVICES WITH INCREASED NASA BUDGET – NOW IS THE KEY TIME FOR THE NEXT 15 YEARS OF NASA SPACE PRIORITIES***

UPI 12-30-2009

2011 BUDGET KEY TO NASA AMBITIONS, SCIENCE NEWS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) — The 2011 federal fiscal budget will determine how soon NASAcan afford to send astronauts to the moon or Mars, space policy experts said.

“The next authorization will really set the path of NASA for the next 10 to 20 years,” said Rep.Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., head of the House Science and Technology Committee.

In October, the U.S. Human Space Flight Committee urged President Barack Obama to increase NASA’s funding to about $22 billion a year – $3 billion more than it received in the 2010 budget.

The committee said NASA’s current funding put it on an “unsustainable trajectory” to finance projects such as circumnavigating the moon and Mars or land on one of Mars’ moons during the next 15 years.

Obama, who has described himself as a passionate supporter of the space program, must balance additional funding for NASA against a growing federal deficit and an economy struggling to regain traction, policy experts told USA Today in a story published Wednesday.

The White House releases its fiscal 2011 budget in early February.

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HOUSTON CHRONICLE 8-3-2003

WITH MONEY SHORT AND NOWHERE TO GO, PAGE 2

Three decades after the moon shots, the annual federal budget deficits exceed $ 450 billion and will continue at unacceptably high levels as far as the eye can see. A renewed national commitment to space exploration would raise the deficits unless Congress took the unlikely action of cutting billions of dollars in farm subsidies, pork projects and social services.