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NASA To Face $1.3 Billion Cut Next Year Under Sequestration

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 16, 2012 @05:41AM from the more-for-less dept.

littlesparkvt writes "A budget forecast that was released on Friday shows that the defense department isn't the only department getting hammered: NASA is as well, if the automatic budget cuts happen. According to Nature magazine, NASA will lose '$417 million from its science budget, $346 for space operations, $309 for exploration, $246 for cross agency support, among other cuts.'"

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Re:Budget cuts should not be imposed by fluffy99 · 2012-09-16 06:33 · Score: 4, Interesting

Oh the AF/Navy have their own launch vehicles and launch facilities now? I guess I wasn't keeping up.
You are correct - you're not keeping up. Airforce launched them. DOD paid for them. In fact the bloc I GPS sats were launched using Atlas rockets, aka repurposed ICBMs.