NASA budget documents posted

By Jeff Foust on 2010 February 1 at 12:36 pm ET

NASA has posted its more detailed documents for the FY11 budget proposal. Start with the overview document, which includes these details:

$19.0 billion for NASA in the FY11 request, rising to nearly $21 billion in FY15; Just under $600M a year in FY11-14 for heavy-lift and propulsion research, rising to about $750M in FY15; Robotic […]

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Shelby: NASA budget begins a “death march” for US human spaceflight

By Jeff Foust on 2010 February 1 at 11:24 am ET

No surprise: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) is not pleased at all with the White House’s FY11 budget proposal for NASA. “The President’s proposed NASA budget begins the death march for the future of US human space flight,” he states in the release. ” The cancelation of the Constellation program and the end of human space […]

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First look at NASA’s FY2011 budget

By Jeff Foust on 2010 February 1 at 10:28 am ET

OMB released the high-level FY2011 budget proposal documents this morning, including a summary of the NASA proposal. Some highlights include the following assessment of Constellation:

NASA’s Constellation program—based largely on existing technologies—was begun to realize a vision of returning astronauts back to the Moon by 2020. However, the program was over budget, behind schedule, and […]

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