The U.S. space agency is sacrificing unmanned science missions in order to fund President Bush’s plan to return astronauts to the moon and to complete the International Space Station. Critics of NASA have been making that charge for the past year, and a May 4 National Academy of Sciences report joins the chorus.
NASA’s projected budget over the next 5 years cuts basic-science funding by 15 percent.
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