NASA restores some astrobiology funds? |
NASA restores some astrobiology funds? |
Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
Mar 28 2006, 01:41 AM
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http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1106
No word on HOW he'll restore them, though -- or how much. |
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Mar 31 2006, 02:04 PM
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NASA Reverses Pledge to Restore Astrobiology Funding
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.nl.html?id=1109 "Reliable sources now report that at a Science Mission Directorate monthly meeting at NASA HQ on Thursday it was noted that no additional funds will be given to Astrobiology and that someone is going to have to go tell the astrobiologists that the claim made by Dantzler and Pilcher is not true." -- Statement by Michael Griffin before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, Depts of State, Justice, & Commerce, & Related Agencies http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.nl.html?pid=20118 "Thus, further delays in the CEV are strategically more damaging to our Nation's space program than delays to these other science missions. I stand by my decision regarding how to implement the priorities of the President and Congress within the resources provided, and I will work closely with our stakeholders in Congress and the scientific community to make sure they understand my rationale. Some of our stakeholders will not agree with my position, but it is important for everyone to understand the rationale. These are difficult decisions, but we must balance the competing priorities for our Nation's civil space and aeronautics research endeavors with the limited resources available." -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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