It went up initially under Obama to a peak, and is estimated to go be down a little this year.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Given the debacle he was left everything had to be cut back.Horwood Beer-Master wrote:Hasn't Obama since gutted it further?Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Yep, the George Bush who gutted NASA's budget.
What Obama did that was a crying shame was cancel Constellation, and then lie to the media and the American people that he was canceling the Moon, but giving us the Solar System. He said he had visions of a manned mission to an asteroid, and to Mars. That was in April, 2009. We have moved, essentially, nowhere towards a manned flight to an asteroid or Mars.
It wasn't that he reduced the budget. It's that the mission changed to more worthless pursuits, which is why we don't have any new missions of the quality of Curiosity planned, let alone manned missions.
