Space News offers a sneak peek at the top-level figures in NASA’s FY07 budget proposal, to be made public on Monday. Overall the agency is getting about a one-percent increase over the final 2006 figure (including hurricane relief monies), to $16.792 billion. That increase, as expected, is spread unevenly: the exploration program will get $3.9 billion, a $700-million increase over what the agency planned to spend in 2006 (as the article notes, NASA has not released its operating plan for this fiscal year, so the exact breakdown of funds among the agency’s programs for this fiscal year is not known.) Shuttle and station would get a little less than in 2006, science just a little more (as anticipated), and aeronautics would be flat.
