NASA Daily News Summary
For Release: July 27, 1999
Media Advisory m99-153


Summary:

Administrator Calls Cuts to NASA Budget 'Devastating'

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NOTE:  STS-93 landing is scheduled for 11:20 pm EDT, tonight.

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ADMINISTRATOR CALLS CUTS TO NASA BUDGET 'DEVASTATING'

     Last night, a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee 
passed a funding bill that cuts NASA's budget about 11 percent 
below the President's request for Fiscal Year 2000.  
     "The NASA team just launched Chandra, the world's most 
powerful space telescope," NASA Administrator Dan Goldin said.  
"Today, we will have to turn it back on Washington to see what 
remains of the NASA budget."
     "Year after year, NASA is touted for doing more and more with 
smaller budgets and held up as a model of good government," said 
Goldin.  "The NASA employees get up every day to achieve what most 
think is impossible.  They have risen to the challenge of smaller 
budgets.  And this is the reward the NASA team gets?  Not only is 
this cut devastating to NASA's programs, it is a knife in the 
heart of employee morale."

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Peggy Wilhide 
202/358-1898.

For full text of release see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/ 99-086.txt


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