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NASA Reaches Higher With Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request
 
NASA announced Monday a $17.7 billion budget request for fiscal year 2013 supporting an ambitious program of space exploration that will build on new technologies and proven capabilities to expand America's reach into the solar system.
Despite a constrained fiscal environment, the NASA FY13 budget continues to implement the space science and exploration program agreed to by President Obama and a bipartisan majority in Congress, laying the foundation for ground-breaking discoveries here on Earth and in deep space, including new destinations, such as an asteroid and Mars by 2035.
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Where now for Mars exploration?

It's the planetary scientists who probably have the glummest faces a day after President Obama announced his 2013 budget request for Nasa.
Although the agency gets a flat budget overall ($17.7bn), there are ongoing and expensive commitments in certain portions of the financial pie - such as to the SLS "monster rocket" and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - and this puts a squeeze on other areas.
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The budget coming Monday from the Obama administration will send the NASA division that launches rovers to Mars and probes to Jupiter crashing back to Earth.
Scientists briefed on the proposed budget said that the president's plan drops funding for planetary science at NASA from $1.5 billion this year to $1.2 billion next year, with further cuts continuing through 2017.
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NASA Announces Fiscal Year 2012 Budget

NASA announced Monday an $18.7 billion budget request for fiscal year 2012 that supports a reinvigorated path of innovation, technological development and scientific discovery. The budget supports all elements of NASA's 2010 Authorization Act, which was passed by a strong bipartisan majority of Congress and signed into law by President Obama.
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Representative Sandy Adams (FL-24) gave the following remarks on the House floor last night outlining her concerns about the President's NASA FY 2012 budget and the direction of NASA's human spaceflight program. Adams, along with Representatives Bill Posey (R-FL) and Pete Olson (R-TX) offered an amendment - which was later withdrawn - encouraging the President to transfer $517 million out of NASA's climate change research fund, and into human space flight. The purpose of the amendment was to highlight the Administration's approach to NASA and the direction in which it's heading.
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NASA's budget request for fiscal year 2007 includes postponement or abandonment of several key space-exploration programs, including the James Webb Space Telescope, which is intended as a partial replacement for the aging Hubble, and the Terrestrial Planet Finder, the giant telescope expected to be able to take photographs of Earthlike planets orbiting distant stars.

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