NASA Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Overview

Highlights of NASA’s FY 2011 Budget
- Top line increase of $6.0 billion over 5-years (FY 2011-15) compared to the FY 2010 Budget, for a total of $100 billion over five years.
- Significant and sustained investments in:
◦ Transformative technology development and flagship technology demonstrations to pursue new approaches to space exploration;
◦ Robotic precursor missions to multiple destinations in the solar system;
◦ Research and development on heavy-lift and propulsion technologies;
◦ U.S. commercial spaceflight capabilities;
◦ Future launch capabilities, including work on modernizing Kennedy Space Center after the retirement of the Shuttle;
◦ Extension and increased utilization of the International Space Station;
◦ Cross-cutting technology development aimed at improving NASA, other government, and commercial space capabilities;
◦ Accelerating the next wave of Climate change research and observations spacecraft;
◦ NextGen and green aviation; and
◦ Education, including focus on STEM.
- Cancellation of the Constellation program; and $600 million in FY 2011 to ensure the safe retirement of the Space Shuttle upon completion of the current manifest.

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The Statement by Charlie Bolden, NASA Administrator, February 1, 2010, NASA Budget Press Conference is at http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/420994main_2011_Budget_Administrator_Remarks.pdf

I was just going to google for that info to put a poster in another thread straight.

human rated launch vehicles for the foreseeable future...

off with manned missions and perhaps even manned landings on the Moon.

NASA is just another victim of the looting of this country by the multi-nationals.

well-played, sir.