Abstract
In the light of 12% across‐the‐board cuts in the second round of federal budgetary action, the announcement by the Office of Management and Budget that the cut to be absorbed by NASA is only 6% appears to be good news. But this is not at all the case, even though the reduced NASA FY 1982 budget would still be above the FY 1981 budget by about 4%, because the first round of budget cuts trimmed NASA to a bare minimum. The budget had been strained after absorbing the huge first‐mission costs of the space shuttle. The portion of the budget for the shuttle still seems to be reserved, untouchable, basically as it was after the first budget‐cutting round. Further, the shuttle's costs are rising, and NASA's budget for the following year (FY 1983) is subject to larger cuts—a figure of about $1 billion has been mentioned.
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