Bush Vision Was Key to Saving NASA from Budget Cuts

Posted by tourdemars to Budget at January 21, 2004 12:00 PM

In the months preceding U.S. President George W. Bush’s decision to chart a new course for the U.S. space program, NASA -- like nearly all U.S. federal agencies -- found itself facing flat budgets “as far as they eye could see,” NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe said today. But as a result of the president’s decision to back a new vision and direction for NASA, the space agency not only avoided what would have amounted to an $11 billion cut, it also became one of the few federal agencies to secure a presidential promise of increasing funding in the years ahead.