NASA 2005 proposed budget is $16.2b -NASA chief

The Bush administration’s proposed NASA budget for fiscal 2005 is $16.2 billion, a 5.6 percent increase over the previous year, the U.S. space agency’s chief said on Wednesday. “It’s about a 5.6 percent (increase), so the number is $16.2 billion, is what you’ll see in the budget that the president will request for the budget year of fiscal ‘05,” NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe told reporters. The increase was meant to see the return to flight of the shuttle fleet, grounded since the Feb. 1 Columbia disaster, and to begin work on long-range plans for a human mission to the moon and eventually to Mars. —Reuters

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