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NASA's Finances in Disarray

Posted by michael on from the once-the-money-goes-up-who-cares-where-it-comes-down dept.

mwolff writes "Yahoo News has an article about the 'financial disarray' NASA seems to be in after a recent audit showed horrible documentation of funding. 'As NASA sets course for the moon and Mars, the space agency's finances are in disarray, with significant errors in its last financial statements and inadequate documentation for $565 billion posted to its accounts, its former auditor reported.'"

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  1. Obligitory NASA Joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    NASA = Need A Second Accountant!

  2. I can hear my grandpa now... by Murdock037 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "They can send a man to the moon, but they can't balance the damn checkbook?"

  3. Re:umm by Prof.Phreak · · Score: 5, Funny

    NASA's whole budget request for 2004 was 15.5 billion.

    At that rate, it'd take them oh, say 40 years to save up 500+ billion.

    Something does not compute.

    Unless someone accidentally used different monetary units...

    --

    "If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy

  4. Re:If their MONEY is in such condition... by MooseByte · · Score: 5, Funny

    "If their MONEY calculations are in such condition, how do their spaceships even rise off the ground?"

    Apparently by the explosive combustion of billions of small, unmarked bills crammed into the fuel tank.

  5. Re:I can already hear the excuses by hwoolery · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Damnit Johnson! We demoted you to finances officer after the metric conversion incident, and now our records are off by billions of dollars!"

    "Dollars?!? Fiddlesticks! I was doing these damned reports in pesos!"