Bush's Budget Plan Bolsters Mars Exploration

Posted by tourdemars to Budget at March 5, 2001 12:00 PM

Last week’s release of President Bush’s budget blueprint for fiscal year 2002 calls for new monies to make NASA’s Mars exploration program "more robust". How that term translates within NASA’s $14.5 billion proposed budget will be made known early next month when a detailed space agency budget is issued. As now hazily sketched out, President Bush’s budget for the space agency bolsters future robotic surveys of the Red Planet. But to what extent a boost in Mars monies swamps out other space science efforts is not known.