NASA budget option: Retire Atlantis

December 15, 2005

NASA budget option: Retire Atlantis

BY JOHN KELLY
FLORIDA TODAY

The immediate retirement of one shuttle orbiter, Atlantis, is among
the options being discussed to solve a $3 billion to $6 billion
shortfall in NASA's space shuttle budget.

Members of Congress from states with shuttle-related jobs are pressing
President Bush to provide NASA with extra money needed to fly 19
planned shuttle missions.

But in a letter to the president, the Congressional leaders say the
White House Office of Management and Budget is headed toward giving
NASA at least $3 billion less than needed. The letter says that would
mean immediate retirement of one shuttle orbiter, Atlantis.
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