OMB Deputy Director Will Head NASA

Baldrson writes: "UPI reports "President George W. Bush has selected Sean O'Keefe, Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to head NASA." In his prior position, Dr. O'Keefe reviewed and gave testimony before Congress, critical of the budgetary overruns of NASA's International Space Station." (Of course, the ISS isn't all NASA's.)

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Re:Well, not ALL of it...

[xyzzy]

Ok, wiseass :-)

Check out the following PDF:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/com po nent_view.pdf

You will note that there are on the order of 35 modules. All but 8 of them are US or Russian (78%). The 8 remaining are among the smallest physical modules in the station -- two arms, two labs, two "logistics modules" and some miscellaney.

I would be willing to guess that my numbers are largely correct by most any measurement you care to name: percent of work, percent of modules, percent of budget (which is what the article was talking about -- remember, it's only us and the Russians actually sticking that stuff up there).

It's worth noting that the other nations taking part in the ISS are Japan, Brazil, Canada, and the EU and Italy. Since Italy is part of the EU, I'm not sure why the distinction here, but there you go. Japan is the 3rd biggest contributor, at 4 modules.