NASA Offers Prize to Private Innovators

Fox News ^ | Wednesday, February 04, 2004 | Rand Simberg

[anymouse]

It reflects the new policy that the president announced a couple weeks ago, and Keith Cowing, of NASA Watch, has spared us from having to plow through the turgid document ourselves, and interpreted it in that context.

As Keith points out, the budget increases for the first few years are modest, but they are real, and NASA, having been now told that the shuttle will no longer be available a decade from now, can truly focus on new things with the funding available. The agency budget will slowly grow to almost $20 billion dollars by the end of a second Bush term (should that occur), but given the dramatic growth of the federal budget in this administration, it will remain less than its historical one percent of the total, which this year will exceed two trillion dollars.

[anymouse]

Gentlemen, start your rocketships!

[anymouse]

Space ping.

[Southack]

[ambrose]

Excellent!

[Moonman62]

This is good news. It's too bad the rest of the federal government and NASA has to be so bloated at the same time.

[Simmy2.5]

Great news! Why funding NASA is worth funding (while things like Perscription Drug benifits isn't).

[quietolong]

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