Columbia Has Apparently Broken up on Reentry

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Tom, which year did the Bush administration request a cut in the NASA budget? I'm trying to figure that one out, and I can't find it anywhere.

Time's up. Bush has never requested a cut in the NASA budget, and never ever will.

NASA is a jobs program for many locations, but especially in two places of tremendous political interest to Bush.

One is Houston, Bush's home town. The other is central Florida, where Bush's bro is Governor and where there was apparently a very tight race for the Presidency a few years back.

Now, I was unable to get the exact budget numbers, because clear descriptions of the federal budget are apparently lacking on the net. I did find that the NASA budget wavered a great deal during the Clinton administration, and that many both inside and outside of the organization were highly alarmed by 1999 cuts. After Clinton it appears that NASAs budget has been consistently on the rise; it was below $10B through 1999, and is something like $14B this year and has been marked for modest increase.

Tom, YOU TELL ME what to think of an engineering type who blatantly makes facts up to support his position. Shouldn't you be appalled at your own behavior in this thread? Why should any readers trust your future statements?