Re: STS cancellation in FY'06?

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:01:59 -0500, Herb Schaltegger
<herb.schaltegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Anyone else see this yet?
>
>"David Radzanowski at OMB issued an action to NASA at the beginning of
>September asking the agency to provide him with an estimate of what
>shutdown costs would result from a termination of the Space Shuttle
>program in FY 2006. NASA provided a response to OMB on 9 September."
>
>< http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2005/09/is_omb_consider.html>

I'm not at all surprised, having expected this since the 114 PAL
event.
..
NASA is already raiding everything else to pay for more ET foam
improvement, over and above the $3.5 Billion NASA already asked for
the Shuttle in FY06, which might, if they're lucky, result in *one*
Shuttle launch.

At some point, even NASA is going to have to ask "at what point is
Shuttle no longer worth everyone else's sacrifice?" Evidently, OMB has
already decided that point has been passed. I wonder how hard NASA
would fight if the decision comes down from the White House. Griffin
would probably make a big show of it, but I doubt his heart would be
in it.

Brian
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