NASA Looks for Ways To Pay for Hubble, Cost Overruns

Published: Jun 06, 2005
Source: www.space.com



Big Universe, Tightening Budget: NASA Looks for Ways To Pay for Hubble, Cost Overruns

imes are tough for the Universe. No not that universe, NASA’s $1.5 billion-Universe.

When the U.S. space agency reorganized its mission enterprises last year, it combined all of its astronomy programs into a single program dubbed the Universe. Today, the Universe has more than a dozen space astronomy missions on orbit and at least that many in development.

Between paying for the space shuttle program and funding new forward-looking space exploration projects like the Crew Exploration Vehicle, NASA’s budget for the Universe is not getting any bigger. In fact, NASA’s 2006 budget calls for spending slightly less on the Universe than in 2005, even as the Universe is seeing significant cost growth on some of its highest priority projects.continue..