$3B In Cuts To NASA, Major Projects To Be Shelved...

First Posted: 03/28/08 03:43 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 12:50 PM ET

The New York Times:

Some of the most highly promoted missions on NASA's scientific agenda would be postponed indefinitely or perhaps even canceled under the agency's new budget, despite its administrator's vow to Congress six months ago that not "one thin dime" would be taken from space science to pay for President Bush's plan to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars.

The cuts come to $3 billion over the next five years, even as NASA's overall spending grows by 3.2 percent this year, to $16.8 billion.

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