Dan Foster wrote in
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In article , Jorge R. Frank
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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.

No. The numbers above refer only to the next five years. Shuttle
retirement doesn't happen until 2010.

Would it really take that long for Core Complete? Considering that
prior to 107, there was apparently some managerial expectation of a
significant milestone to happen in February 2003 or around then from
my recollection of a CAIB report comment.

That's US Core Complete. Yesterday's proposal would carry ISS assembly at
least through International Core Complete, requiring about 20 more flights
over 4 years.

Although if that's indeed the case for 2010, and if one assumes the
budget pain would be roughly even for at least most of the next 6
years... $11B / 6 would be just under $2B/year to be diverted.

It's more of a ramp function than divided evenly among each year, as shown
in:

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/54873main_bu...rt_14jan04.pdf

Considering NASA's total budget was about $15B in 2003, that's a net
reduction of about 13.3% on an annual basis... 80% (or somewhere
around there) of the overall NASA budget is used for human spaceflight
IIRC. I wonder which projects are going up on the chopping block.

OSP is definitely one of them. The rest haven't been decided. Long-term
shuttle upgrades are one attractive target.


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