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NASA Releases the 2014 “Tough Choices” Budget Proposal

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:26
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NASA has released their budget proposal for 2014 and, as rumored, it includes funding for the preliminary work to begin a mission to capture an asteroid and bring it to lunar orbit. The Fiscal Year 2014 request for NASA totals $17.7 billion, which is $50 million less than the request for 2013, and NASA said they had to make some “tough choices” in putting the proposal together. The new proposal appears to hit the Planetary Science program especially hard (no new missions to the outer planets or moons, it appears), but does include money for Plutonium-238 production and additional funding for asteroid detection.
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