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NASA Science Budget to Feel Impact of Bush's Plan
By Brian Berger
Space News Staff Writer
posted: 02:00 pm ET
14 January 2004
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Untitled WASHINGTON -- U.S. President George W. Bushs new space exploration strategy will be paid for over the next several years with $1 billion in new funding for NASA and $11 billion that will be shifted from other agency programs, according to congressional sources. NASA officials told House and Senate lawmakers in briefings this week that the president will seek an increase in NASA spending of 3.8 percent per year, or slightly more than $500 million, for each of the next four years, the sources said. The administration will seek 5 percent annual increases in NASAs budget for the next three years and 1 percent in subsequent years, source said. In addition, NASA plans to redirect a total of $11 billion over that time period from other programs to the new exploration effort. Congressional sources said they were told that much of that reprogramming will affect science programs, particularly those not related to the new exploration efforts, but they declined to be specific. The rate of growth for the science budget will be slowed down, one congressional source said. Members of Congress also were told by NASA that the space shuttle will be phased out once space station assembly is complete about 2010, but they did not say how much longer the United States would to participate in the space station program.
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