Briefing Report to the Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Science,Technology and Space, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, US Senate. Nasa Budgets: Gap Between Funding Requirements and Projected Budgets Has Been Reopened

摘要

This report summarizes the nature and scope of the adjustments NASA has made toreduce or eliminate the gap between required funding and likely future budgets previously identified and the gap between NASA's program plans and its likely future budgets is identified. Recent events have reopened a gap between NASA's program plans and its likely budgets. NASA has not yet developed plans for closing this $5.3 billion gap projected for fiscal years 1996 through 2000. NASA closed the gap reported in 1992 primarily by changing and/or deleting some of its major programs. As a result of these changes, NASA increased the risks in several of its largest programs.