Bob Jacobs
Headquarters, Washington           Feb. 4, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1600)

RELEASE: 02-21 

NASA ADMINISTRATOR SAYS 2003 BUDGET 
REFLECTS WHITE HOUSE COMMITTMENT

     The following is a statement by NASA Administrator Sean 
O'Keefe regarding the Administration's 2003 budget proposal.

"The President's budget proposal of $15.1 billion for fiscal 
year 2003 reflects the Administration's commitment to this 
agency's core research efforts and its fundamental mandate to 
advance aeronautics and aerospace science.

"From developing safe, more powerful and more efficient space 
transportation systems to pioneering the frontiers of flight 
and knowledge, NASA is the world's premiere aerospace agency. 
We have the freedom and the people to dream big, and then are 
given the enviable task to make those dreams into reality.

"But it's not enough to make promises about the future. We 
have to live up to the President's Management Agenda, which 
asks us to responsibly live up to those promises. 

"The Administration has chartered a fiscal course for the 
future that asks NASA to look at the way it does business, 
identify improvements in management and performance, and 
continue to build on the agency's core foundation of science 
and technology research."

Additional information about NASA's FY 2003 budget and the 
President's Management Agenda is available on the Internet 
at:

http://www.nasa.gov/budget/budget2003_index.html
http://ifmp.nasa.gov/codeb/budget2003/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2002/mgmt.pdf

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