Abstract

With little increase in funding at NASA over the last few years and a presidential mandate to go to the Moon and Mars, NASA science has suffered as funds have been redirected to the manned space program. However, the agency could make better use of its existing science funds, according to several witnesses who testified on 2 May before the U.S. House of Representatives Science and Technology Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.About $3–4 billion was removed from future spending plans for NASA's Science Mission Directorate following the implementation of the Vision for Space Exploration, which was announced in 2004. The recent hearing focused on how this loss of funding could be better managed by three of NASA's four science divisions.

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