FY98 Budget Request: NASA Space, Earth, Life & Microgravity Sciences
The NASA FY 1998 request includes enhanced funding for the “Origins” program, described in background material as “a unifying theme” for space science focused on “the origin and evolution of the Universe, and about the possibility of life elsewhere...” Current and future planned missions include Hubble Space Telescope upgrades; the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility; the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF--a new start, scheduled for launch in 2001); the Cassini mission to Saturn, to be launched in October 1997; the Relativity Mission/Gravity Probe-B, scheduled for launch in October 2000; acceleration of the Mars Surveyor missions to enable a sample return mission by 2005; and continued development of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
Program |
FY 1997 |
FY 1998 |
Percent |
Description |
Approp. |
Request |
Change |
(In millions) |
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SPACE SCIENCE |
$1,969.30 |
$2,043.80 |
3.8 |
AXAF |
178.6 |
92.2 |
-48.4 |
Cassini |
89.6 |
9 |
-90 |
Gravity Probe B |
59.6 |
45.6 |
-23.5 |
SIRTF |
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81.4 |
|
TIMED |
18.2 |
48.2 |
164.8 |
Payloads |
16.9 |
12.3 |
-27.2 |
Explorer Development |
125 |
142.7 |
14.2 |
Mars Surveyor Program |
90 |
139.7 |
55.2 |
Discovery |
76.8 |
106.5 |
38.7 |
New Millenium |
48.6 |
75.7 |
55.8 |
Advanced Space Tech. |
132 |
151.2 |
14.6 |
MO&DA |
583.3 |
507.4 |
-13 |
Supporting Res.&Tech. |
246 |
311.2 |
26.5 |
Suborbital Program |
64.1 |
84.4 |
31.7 |
Launch Services |
240.6 |
236.3 |
-1.8 |
LIFE & MICROGRAVITY |
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SCIENCES |
243.7 |
214.2 |
-12.1 |
Life Sciences |
97.4 |
85.5 |
-12.2 |
Microgravity Sci. Res |
105.3 |
101.4 |
-3.7 |
Aerospace Medicine |
3.8 |
7.5 |
97.4 |
Shuttle/Spacelab Payload |
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Manag./Integration |
24.2 |
6.9 |
-71.5 |
Space Product Devel. |
13 |
12.9 |
-0.8 |
MISSION TO PLANET |
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EARTH |
1,361.60 |
1,417.30 |
4.1 |
Earth Observ. Syst. |
586.7 |
679.7 |
15.9 |
EOS DIS |
254.6 |
244.7 |
-3.9 |
Earth Probes Devel. |
57.2 |
40.7 |
-28.9 |
Science |
295.4 |
271.1 |
-8.2 |
Operations/Data Retrieval |
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/Storage |
78 |
54.2 |
-30.5 |
GLOBE |
5 |
5 |
0 |
Launch Services |
84.7 |
121.9 |
43.9 |
