NASA BUDGET:
Red Ink Will Not Wash Out Space Science
Andrew Lawler
While most U.S. R&D agencies are savoring the prospect of big budget increases if Congress approves the Clinton Administration's 1999 request, NASA is contemplating a less palatable fate: a smaller budget than it received this year. That possibility brought congressional advocates of the space program rushing to NASA's defense last week. They charged that a declining budget coupled with ballooning space station cost overruns could cripple science, aeronautics, and technology programs.