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NASA restores some astrobiology funds?

Guest_BruceMoomaw_*	Mar 28 2006, 01:41 AM Post #1
Guests	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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ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Mar 31 2006, 02:04 PM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	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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BruceMoomaw NASA restores some astrobiology funds? Mar 28 2006, 01:41 AM

mars loon Well this would be very welcome news indeed !... Mar 29 2006, 12:56 AM

BruceMoomaw The alarming possibility is that he'll just pu... Mar 29 2006, 01:14 AM

mars loon yes that is my fear to. those possibilities were d... Mar 29 2006, 01:29 AM

nprev I hate to sound all starry-eyed, idealistic, and... Mar 29 2006, 06:16 AM

mars loon I do extensive public outreach to educate the publ... Mar 29 2006, 04:38 PM

nprev QUOTE (mars loon @ Mar 29 2006, 08:38 AM)... Mar 30 2006, 06:20 AM

mcaplinger QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Mar 27 2006, 05:41 P... Mar 29 2006, 05:04 PM

BruceMoomaw If they had either any gumption or any sense, they... Mar 29 2006, 05:28 PM

BruceMoomaw NASA Watch now reports that the funds have been un... Mar 31 2006, 02:13 AM

GravityWaves QUOTE QUOTE REMOVED - no need to quote when replyi... Mar 31 2006, 03:19 AM

ljk4-1 NASA Reverses Pledge to Restore Astrobiology Fundi... Mar 31 2006, 02:04 PM

ljk4-1 Commentary: Astrobiology Research Threatened at NA... Mar 31 2006, 04:19 PM

BruceMoomaw An April 4 NASA "Note to the Community" ... Apr 21 2006, 01:34 PM

ljk4-1 QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Apr 21 2006, 09:34 A... Apr 21 2006, 01:56 PM

ljk4-1 My two cents: I can easily recall when mainstream... May 12 2006, 04:51 PM

The Messenger QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ May 12 2006, 10:51 A... May 15 2006, 08:41 PM

ljk4-1 Saving Astrobiology at NASA http://www.spaceref.c... May 15 2006, 07:14 PM

BruceMoomaw Remember that, even when Marcy and Butler started ... May 16 2006, 01:41 AM

centsworth_II So is a program for finding Earth-sized planets in... May 16 2006, 03:33 AM

BruceMoomaw Kepler is still scheduled to make the first large-... May 17 2006, 04:33 AM

edstrick Also note that the european Gaia astrometric mappe... May 17 2006, 08:38 AM

BruceMoomaw Yes, but all the planets GAIA discovers will be gi... May 18 2006, 02:29 PM

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