Budgets and Policy

NASA HQ Sends Out The Bad News

By Keith Cowing
March 17, 2006

Funding Notification Sent out by NASA Headquarters to Astrobiology Investigators, NASA HQ

“By now you will probably have received notification that there will not be an Exobiology solicitation in ROSES-06. Due to cuts in the FY06 Astrobiology Program budget, and the proposed cuts in the FY07 budget, the four funding lines in the Program (Exo, NAI, ASTID, and ASTEP) are under extreme pressure.”

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