Pluto Mission May Be Early Victim Of Growing Budget Crisis: "Pluto Mission Might Get Nuked In Growing Budget Crisis

Sacramento - Aug 21, 2003
The saga of NASA's 'New Horizons' Pluto flyby probe - which, earlier this year, finally received official approval and funding from NASA, the White House and Congress, and seemed assured of launch in 2006 - has now undergone yet another perilous twist, of a wholly unexpected sort.

In July, the House of Representatives startled everyone by approving a Fiscal Year 2004 budget for the unmanned spaceflight portion of the NASA budget which includes fully $143 million in additional earmarks to committee members' homestate projects (some of them not connected to NASA at all), but which compensates for this with $96 million in cuts to four programs."
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A LOT OF INFORMATION HERE. ONCE AGAIN A POSSIBLE - OFF AGAIN MISSION TO PLUTO - LRK -