NASA deputy space station program manager Kirk Shireman has confirmed a nasawatch.com report that the agency may stop all US research programs on board the International Space Station for one year to save $100M.
COMMENT: "Shortsighted" is far too mild a word for this. It will take years to get the life sciences and other programs on the ISS running again, no doubt raising costs and damaging research intended to pave the way for longer human space voyages. Maybe "insane" is a better word. If NASA can't find the money, it needs to lobby the Administration to ask for emergency funding unti lthe 2007 budget is approved.
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