Comments on: Boehlert on funding NASA vs. NSF http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/03/16/boehlert-on-funding-nasa-vs-nsf/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boehlert-on-funding-nasa-vs-nsf Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Kevin Parkin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/03/16/boehlert-on-funding-nasa-vs-nsf/#comment-237 Wed, 17 Mar 2004 04:39:41 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=116#comment-237 So much for a zero-sum game. Divided we fall I suppose, although there is another way: offload some of the NASA scientific work to NSF.

This should help alleviate some competing science vs. engineering forces within NASA which would otherwise make the Exploration initiative less likely to succeed – all should be better off.

If NSF have any sense, they’ll use the money to help rectify the 18% reduction in their education budget (if I remember correctly). So the next generation of (cheap to employ) students can be more involved in space science, which is surely one of the objectives of the Exploration Initiative in the first place.

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