Good News! NASA Is (Probably) Getting More MoneyS  NASA needs
more money, because let's face it, rocket launches ain't cheap.
The good news is, it looks like they'll be getting some. Not as
much as they want, but some.  In October NASA said they would
need $3 billion more per year to go forward with meaningful
human space exploration, i.e. not just sending more robots up.
For a while there were rumors going around that Washington was
going to severely scale back the program's budget, but now
according to Washington insider John Logsdon, "there will be
more money."  He's also saying that Obama doesn't want to be
that president who cuts a future oriented program. So he'll keep
it alive, but he'll only give them a budget somewhere between
their current spending and the $3 billion per year increase NASA
is looking for. But all that means is that NASA will have to
buddy up with international space programs a little more.  Let's
face it, we weren't going to get to Mars on our own anyway. As
long as NASA is still al