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Budget Cuts Compromised NASA's Focus on Safety, Investigative Board Finds.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003
By Tamara Lytle, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 27--WASHINGTON--Devastating budget cuts forced NASA to slash space-shuttle programs as Congress funded pet projects and the agency's former director ignored complaints the cutbacks would hurt safety.
That's the harsh picture painted by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board on Tuesday, which cited a 13 percent drop in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration budget in the past decade when adjusted for inflation.
Those budget cuts, coupled with the rise in priority of the international space station, resulted in NASA's raiding the space-shuttle budget under former Administrator Dan Goldin -- cutting the space plane's spending by more than...
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