Less bucks, less likely to see Buck Rogers by 2015

NASAWatch.com is reporting the latest NASA budget reports and its not a pretty sight with over $300 million cut from the agency's requested budget, assuming the bill that would appropriate this money isn't veto'd by US president George W Bush

Despite this reality its not stopping Floridian politicians from pushing for billions more for NASA to keep Shuttle flying and develop the Orion capsule and its Ares booster. Well at least they can say they tried

In the meantime NASA is just getting on with the job, with this work on components for its Ares I creww launch vehicle's upper stage J-2X engine and tanking tests for the propellant tank that should be strapped to the Orbiter Atlantis for a 10 January launch