NASA faces identity crisis, funding battle

NASA faces identity crisis, funding battle
Washington (UPI) May 30, 2013 - As NASA funding continue to dissipate, space agency officials are left trying - frustratingly - to figure out what's worth paying for. And the Spitzer Space Telescope is just the latest in a growing list of defunded and soon-to-be-extinct projects. Since the Apollo missions to the moon ended in 1973, NASA's budget has steadily declined - from 1.35 percent of the federal government's ... more

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