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Bush Again Pledges to Sustain Space Program.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
By G. Robert Hillman, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 4--WASHINGTON-President Bush, still mourning the deaths of the seven Columbia astronauts, vowed again on Monday that "America's journey into space will go on."
And the White House pointedly noted that in a meeting with NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, Mr. Bush had sought to boost the agency's morale.
"You make us proud," press secretary Ari Fleischer said the president told Mr. O'Keefe.
Still, it was a day of mixed messages for the administration as it unveiled its budget proposals for fiscal year 2004, which begins Oct. 1.
The spending plan would boost funding slightly for NASA, raising it 3.3 percent, from $15 billion to nearly...
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