[meteorite-list] NASA Administrator Bolden's Statement on the NASA FY 2014 Budget Request

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:01:21 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201304102001.r3AK1LO0027181_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

April 10, 2013

David Weaver
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
david.s.weaver at nasa.gov

RELEASE: 13-104

NASA ADMINISTRATOR BOLDEN'S STATEMENT ON THE NASA FY 2014 BUDGET REQUEST

WASHINGTON -- The following statement is from NASA Administrator
Charles Bolden on the administration's budget request for the 2014
fiscal year:

"Today, we unveil President Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 budget request
for NASA -- a $17.7 billion investment in our nation's future. Our
budget ensures the United States will remain the world's leader in
space exploration and scientific discovery for years to come, while
making critical advances in aerospace and aeronautics to benefit the
American people.

"This budget focuses on an ambitious new mission to expand America's
capabilities in space, steady progress on new space and aeronautic
technologies, continued success with commercial space partnerships,
and far-reaching science programs to help us understand Earth and the
universe in which we live. It keeps us competitive, opens the door to
new destinations and vastly increases our knowledge.

"Our drive to make new discoveries and dare new frontiers continues to
improve life for people everywhere and raise the bar of human
achievement.

"The space station remains the centerpiece of our human exploration
efforts. It allows us to perform technology demonstrations and
scientific research only possible in microgravity, all while helping
to improve life here on Earth and plan for missions into deep space.

"With America now successfully resupplying the International Space
Station with cargo launched from the U.S. by American companies, this
budget ensures that our astronauts will also be launched from U.S.
soil on spacecraft built by American industry within the next four
years, ending our reliance on other nations and opening up new
commercial markets in space.

"We are developing a first-ever mission to identify, capture and
relocate an asteroid. This mission represents an unprecedented
technological feat that will lead to new scientific discoveries and
technological capabilities and help protect our home planet. This
asteroid initiative brings together the best of NASA's science,
technology and human exploration efforts to achieve the president's
goal of sending humans to an asteroid by 2025. We will use existing
capabilities such as the Orion crew capsule and Space Launch System
(SLS) rocket, and develop new technologies like solar electric
propulsion and laser communications -- all critical components of
deep space exploration.

"NASA's ground-breaking science missions are reaching farther into our
solar system, revealing unknown aspects of our universe and providing
critical data about our home planet and threats to it. Spacecraft are
speeding to Jupiter, Pluto and Ceres while satellites peer into other
galaxies, spot planets around other stars, and uncover the origins of
the universe. The budget funds our amazing fleet of scientific
spacecraft, including strong support for study of the Earth and its
response to natural or human-induced changes. And on the heels of the
most daring mission to Mars in history last year, provides funding to
launch another mission to the Red Planet. We also will continue our
steady progress to develop and conduct critical tests on the James
Webb Space Telescope, leading to its planned launch in 2018.

"While reaching for new heights in space, we're creating new jobs
right here on Earth -- especially for the next generation of American
scientists and engineers -- by supporting cutting edge aeronautics
and space technology innovations and research and development that
will help fuel the nation's economy for years to come."

The NASA budget and supporting information are available at:

http://www.nasa.gov/budget

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Received on Wed 10 Apr 2013 04:01:21 PM PDT