Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:23:46 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] SpaceX executive calls for $22-25 billion NASA budget
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

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While participating in a panel called \342\200\234The US Space Enterprise
Partnership\342\200\235 at the NewSpace Conference that was held by the Space
Frontier Foundation on Saturday, SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne
Shotwell opined that NASA\342\200\231s budget should be raised to $22-25 billion,
according to a tweet by Space Policy Online\342\200\231s Marcia Smith. The theory is
that a lot of political rancor has taken place in the aerospace community
because of the space agency\342\200\231s limited budget. If the budget were to be
increased to pay for everything on the space wish list, the rancor will
cease.

The statement represents something of a departure of the usual mutual
antagonism that exists between some in the commercial space community and
some at NASA. Indeed Space Politics\342\200\231 Jeff Foust added a tweet, \342\200\234Thought: a
panel at a Space Frontier Foundation conf is talking about how to increase
NASA budget. Imagine that in late 90s.\342\200\235 The Space Frontier Foundation has
been a leading voice for commercializing space, sometimes at the expense
of NASA programs.
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<http://www.examiner.com/article/spacex-executive-calls-for-22-25-billion-nasa-budget>

        mark