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To: Win Smith who wrote (424)	2/4/2003 2:27:14 PM
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Well, the US defense budget is sort of an unfair point of comparison Just found a similar one in a WSJ article: Shuttle Crash Raises Questions Over Future of Manned Flights Already Facing Steep Budget Cutbacks, NASA May Reassess Ultimate Mission The Wall Street Journal February 3, 2003 6:26 p.m. EST online.wsj.com <Initially the shuttle was part of NASA's dream to send people regularly into space and eventually to Mars. For all practical purposes, it has become a vehicle for trips to the not-yet-completed International Space Station and for science experiments in a weightless environment. The nation's only manned space program has shrunk along with NASA's budget, which at about $14 billion is less than 1% of the national budget. That is tiny compared to the Pentagon's $294 billion budget in 2001.> The article also contains a chart of the percentage of the NASA budget vs. total federal outlays. Some pro-ISS arguments: ISS: Improving Life on Earth and in Space The NASA Research Plan, An Overview spaceflight.nasa.gov A detailed evaluation: ISS Management and Cost Evaluation (IMCE) task force report November 1, 2001 ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/reports/2001/imce.pdf

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