“The President’s budget for NASA is my budget. I strongly support the priorities and the direction for NASA that he has put forward. I’m open to hearing ideas from any member of the NASA team, but I did not ask anybody for an alternative to the President’s plan and budget. We have to be forward thinking and aggressive in our pursuit of new technologies to take us beyond low-Earth orbit, and the President’s plan does this.
After years of underinvestment in new technology and unrealistic budgeting, we finally have an ambitious plan for NASA that sets the agency on a reinvigorated path of space exploration.”
For more information about the agency’s 2011 fiscal year budget proposal, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/budget
