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>"Obama asked Congress to freeze NASA's 2012 budget at the 2010 level of $18.7 billion, roughly $300 million less than the amount called for in the 2011 road map that's working its way through Congress. Space operations would be cut by 29 percent to $4.3 billion, primarily due to retirement of the shuttle fleet that is winding down three decades of operations.
The White House plan would increase spending on earth science research and commercial spacecraft but offers little hope of transition work for some of NASA's 18,500-member workforce and a far larger team of contractors."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7427505.html

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