Projects: S.O.S: Save Our Science!
Campaign Background
Statements, congressional testimony, opinions, and editorials related to the campaign to restore science to NASA.
Statements and Testimony
February 16, 2006
A Better Path for NASA
Statement of The Planetary Society to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science
The Bush Administration's proposed 5-year budget for NASA, just submitted to Congress, is an attack on science. The proposed budget directs three billion dollars (over five years) away from robotic exploration of the solar system to continue to operate the shuttle. Last year the Administrator said, "not one thin dime" would be so directed. Now we learn it is 30 billion dimes.
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February 6, 2006
Planetary Society Charges Administration with Blurring its Vision for Space Exploration
The NASA Budget released today shortchanges space science in order to fund 17 projected space shuttle flights. Despite recent spectacular results from NASA's science programs, this budget puts the brakes on their growth within the agency. It seriously damages the hugely productive and successful robotic exploration of our solar system and beyond.
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Opinions and Editorials
March 10, 2006
From the Execuive Director
Open letter to NASA Administator, Michael Griffin
by Louis Friedman
It is been a rather heady and intense time at The Planetary Society. The political problems posed by the NASA budget -- with deep cuts in space science -- are curiously juxtaposed with the excitement about the finding of water evidence at Enceladus, the moon of Saturn, and the orbit insertion of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (The Japanese success at Hayabusa is also not lost on us, nor is the upcoming orbit insertion of Europe’s Venus Express).
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February 25, 2006
Manned or Unmanned? NASA's Flying Blind in Space
Shuttle missions killing science, space exploration
An Essay by Louis D. Friedman --Published in the Houson Chronicle
WILL it be "manned or unmanned" exploration of space?
I use the politically incorrect "manned" and "unmanned" in stating the question because, sadly, I think we have returned to the bad old days of arguing about and competing between the two. This was, for me, the worst part of this month's House Science Committee hearing in Congress on the proposed NASA fiscal 2007 budget.
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Around the Net
Spaceref.com
March 30, 2006
NASA Space Science Continues To Be at Risk
by Mark V. Sykes and Heidi B. Hammel
NASA leadership is laying the groundwork for an American space science program in permanent retreat. Research and analysis programs — the very foundation of future exploration efforts — are being cut by more than 25 percent through the 2006 and 2007 budgets to help pay for increasing costs in human spaceflight.
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Space.com
February 16, 2006
NASA’s 2007 Budget Proposal: No Real Vision
by Wesley T. Huntress and Louis Friedman
Let’s put the bottom line right at the top. The Bush administration is unwilling to provide the funds necessary to fulfill its Vision for Space Exploration.
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