On January 14, 2004, President Bush announced a new vision for human and robotic space exploration that he named 'A Renewed Spirit of Discovery.' The goal of those activities is to advance U.S. scientific, security, and economic interests through a robust exploration program in space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) budget request for fiscal year 2005, as well as a projected budget through 2020, included substantial changes relative to previous plans to reorient the agency's programs to support the objectives of the exploration vision. This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study-prepared at the request of the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee-assesses the implications of the new vision for both the content of NASA's future exploration programs and the funding that might be needed to execute them. The study also analyzes how NASA's budget might be affected if costs for its proposed new programs for space exploration grew as much as some of NASA's program costs have grown in the past. Concluding the analysis is an examination of alternatives for the future of the space shuttle program and the United States' involvement in the International Space Station. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, this study makes no recommendations.
Budgetary Analysis of NASA's New Vision for Space Exploration
2004
60 pages
Report
No indication
English
Astronautics , Extraterrestrial Exploration , Budgets , United States , Plans , Projections , Cost growth , Analogies , Missions , Decision making , Congressional reports , National Aeronautics and Space Administration , Space exploration , Alternative decisions , Congressional Budget Office , Shuttle fleet
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