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Science 21 November 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5342, p. 1391
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5342.1391
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POLICY:
NASA Faces Billion-Dollar Problem

Andrew Lawler

Prospects for much of the federal government's research enterprise may be looking up (see main text). But NASA's budget trajectory is still headed down. The agency's annual budget has fallen by $1 billion, to $13.6 billion, in the past 4 years, and it has taken an aggressive cost-cutting campaign by NASA chief Daniel Goldin to stave off the cancellation of major programs. And right now, next year looks even worse, largely due to cost overruns on the international space station.

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