Funding for two space missions absent from NASA budget request
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.027806
Los Angeles Times : Excluded from NASA’s 2015 budget proposal are two long-standing missions: the Mars rover Opportunity and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Instead, funding requests for the two programs have been relegated to the budget of the separate and larger Opportunity, Growth, and Security Initiative . In response, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA)—whose district includes NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the Mars rover program—expressed concern over NASA’s leaving the two ongoing missions out of its main funding request. Counting on the programs’ strong congressional support to find the necessary funding is “not a very prudent way to budget or to plan,” he said.
