"Dan Foster" wrote in message
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In article , Marshall Perrin
wrote:
"Bush said he would ask Congress for $12 billion during the next five
years
for the research and development program, with $11 billion of that
coming from
reallocating money from current NASA programs. "

Any idea what programs the $11B will be diverted from? I haven't seen
any
rumors about what gets the axe yet...

A lot of that (sheer majority) will come from the Shuttle retirement.

Beyond that for the remaining programs, I couldn't quite speculate.

-Dan

The space station funding will go too once its complete - $1 billion.

I personally don't have a problem with axeing a load of the current
science/research programs. Deep space manned exploration deserves the
highest priority, that a big robotic missions should be what NASA's about.
Leave the research to the small specialised institutes and LEO to private
companies.