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:At last, someone with financial knowledge

[Fenris2001]

but as a taxpayer fed up with seeing my dollars flushed down NASAs ever increasing budget black hole

Please, I'm tired of hearing this same BS every time /. posts a NASA-related story. NASA's budget request for FY2002 is about 14.5 billion dollars (from NASA's CFO). Compare this with a total federal budget of almost 2 trillion dollars (from the Office of Management and Budget ).

NASA's "budget black hole" is less than one percent of the amount your government spends. We taxpayers spend more money on farm subsidies than space exploration.