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Title: CEV by 2011?
Post by: Dobbins on 04/26/2006 10:42 am

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3819353.html

Title: RE: CEV by 2011?
Post by: Chris Bergin on 04/26/2006 10:45 am

Good link.

Problem is...how much more (about $15 billion is one estimate) and that's never going to happen in a month of Sundays :(

Title: RE: CEV by 2011?
Post by: Dobbins on 04/26/2006 12:30 pm

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Chris Bergin - 26/4/2006  6:45 AM

Good link.

Problem is...how much more (about $15 billion is one estimate) and that's never going to happen in a month of Sundays :(

I saw the testimony on NASA TV yeterday, the context of the conversation would be funded at the levels in the NASA Authorization act.

Title: RE: CEV by 2011?
Post by: simonbp on 04/26/2006 12:41 pm

Is that $1 billion more per year, or in total over the next five years?

BTW, I made this chart of the post-Apollo NASA budget a while back; seems pertanent...

Simon ;)

Title: RE: CEV by 2011?
Post by: Dobbins on 04/26/2006 12:47 pm

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simonbp - 26/4/2006  8:41 AM

Is that $1 billion more per year, or in total over the next five years?

Funding at the authorization act levels would be 1.1 Billion more for FY 2007 alone, plus additional funds for the years after that.

Title: RE: CEV by 2011?
Post by: wannamoonbase on 04/30/2006 09:16 pm

Just discussing the idea of having CEV ready for 2011 leads me to believe more strongly that the Axe is even closer to falling on STS.  I have thought since RTF last year that the brain trust in NASA and the White House would like nothing more than to find a way to cancel STS outright (hopefully with out loss of life.)

Moving up to 2011 would mean some very serious acceleration.  Starting Yesterday.