Huntsville, AL - The Obama Administration is requesting a nearly 18 billion dollar budget for NASA for the next fiscal year. The plan includes building on new technologies and expanding our reach into the solar system. Marshall Space Flight Center Director Robert Lightfoot says, the new budget offers stability. He says the numbers offers a clear mission and resources to perform that mission. One of the most significant pieces of the budget for Huntsville, is 124 million dollars for construction. Lightfoot says that is mostly to help in preparing for the Space Launch System... The budget also increases funding for the space technology program by 24 percent. “It continues what we were already planning to do. There's no big change here. There's no big upset in the process and it allows us to just keep stability going, which gives us a whole nother year of making progress, which the team is doing,” says Lightfoot.
To view the entire NASA budget for 2013, go to http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/feb/HQ_12-051_2013_Budget.html
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