Sentence examples for budget for space from inspiring English sources

"During the Apollo era we set aside almost 6percentt of the nation's budget for space exploration," he said.

The decision to resume manned exploration beyond low Earth orbit was not made as the result of an objective evaluation as to how we can most effectively spend our limited budget for space science.

Dr. Friedman, a host of the meeting, said that with the tight budget for space exploration, it was a good time to hash out ideas to prepare for the transition.

DOE's science programs would receive a 3.2% increase, including continued support for the $1.3 billion Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, while NASA's budget for space, earth, and life and microgravity sciences would rise by 2.5%.

"But where will the money come from?" The budget for space science has been flat for years, he says, and shifting money from other space projects would "cause a lot of trouble".

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is the primary federal funding source in Canada, with an annual budget for space science of CA$65 million (1999), of which 75% to 80% supports research in universities, industry, and not-for-profit research organizations.

For this reason, there is an increasing need for adequate design tools in order to cope efficiently with tightening budgets for space missions.

Representative Sherwood Boehlert, the New York Republican who is chairman of the Science Committee, called the new budget "bad for space science, worse for earth science," adding, "It basically cuts or de-emphasizes every forward-looking, truly futuristic program of the agency to fund operational and development programs to enable us to do what we are already doing or have done before".

With growing federal deficits and bruising battles over health care, it is unclear how much political capital Mr. Obama might spend on expanding the budget for the space agency.

During a news conference announcing the administration's proposed 2011 budget for the space agency, Lori Garver, the deputy administrator, said the agency did not plan to buy more solid rocket motors, although ATK could use the motor for its own rocket if it wished to bid for the commercial crew business.

We addressed the planner's problem of allocating a fixed budget for open space protection among eligible natural areas with the twin objectives of maximizing public access and species representation.