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

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.

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

How much might come through winding-down Shuttle? I mean, ETs and SRBs
are long-lead items, so presumably production of those will cease ahead
of final flight... mind you, we're not clear when that will be yet, and
they presumably wish to keep some extras in case of accidents ("oops, we
dropped your ET"), reflights ("well, we had to cut STS-130 short"), or
opportunity flights (a la STS-107).

(That probably counts as an "ignore that question", I suppose...)

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-Andrew Gray