NASA budget--- maybe People mad because of WASTE---like not using Shuttle

NASA Leadership In Space Exploration Shaken
 
Frank Morring, Jr & Amy Svitak - Aviation Week
 
NASA faces a loss of confidence in its international space-exploration leadership after the unilateral U.S. withdrawal from a series of joint robotic missions to Mars with the European Space Agency. Instead of working with ESA’s ExoMars program on sample-return precursor missions in 2016 and 2018, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) will join forces with the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) directorate and the Office of the Chief Technologist to work up a medium-sized mission in 2018 that may meet the needs of all three NASA units.
 
Shrinking NASA Budget Forces Tough Trade-offs
 
Brian Berger & Dan Leone - Space News
 
U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposal to roll back NASA spending to its lowest level since 2008 puts the  squeeze on planetary science and other agency activities in order to accommodate a massively overbudget space telescope and a congressionally mandated heavy-lift rocket while doubling funding for a controversial commercial crew initiative. Obama submitted the final spending proposal of his current four-year term Feb. 13 to a deeply divided Congress unlikely to pass a 2013 budget before a November election shaping up as referendum on taxes and spending. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was among the senior government executives called upon Feb. 13 to extol the virtues of their respective portions of a $3.8 trillion budget proposal the White House says holds total discretionary spending to its lowest level in 10 years.
 
House Science Committee members complain about NASA budget
 
SpacePolitics.com
 
In the first opportunity for members of Congress to publicly question the administration on details of its fiscal year 2013 budget request for NASA, members of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee expressed concern Friday about proposed cuts to NASA’s Mars program and its exploration program. “NASA seems to have been singled out for unequal treatment,” committee chairman Ralph Hall (R-TX) said in his opening statement at a hearing on the overall FY13 research and development budget proposal for the federal government. He noted that other civil research and development agencies has received at least modest increases, while NASA got a small overall cut. Hall specifically called out the agency’s planetary science program and its “grossly disproportionate cut” of 20 percent.
 
For Space Mess, Scientists Seek Celestial Broom