Space station funds come crashing to earth. (government funding of NASA's Space Station Freedom)

EDN, October, 1990 by Colborn, Kate

Space station funds come crashing to earth The USE space program is the most likely sponge for absorbing out-of-work engineers laid off due to the slow-down in military spending; that's according to observers of the aerospace electronics industry. Yet national budget pressures and escalating criticism of NASA make congressional and popular support for a major NASA buildup questionable.

Of special note to engineers is the fact that Space Station Freedom, NASA's most visible and prized project right now, is coming under intense scrutiny. This program accounts for $2.45 billion of NASA's requested $7.074 billion R&D budget--approximately 35% of all R&D monies and the largest dollar increase in any R&D program. Because R&D monies provide the majority of new...

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