Monday, June 19, 2006
By reaching for the moon and Mars, NASA is let go of aviation research that was the foundation for the nation's journey into space.
Some contend that cuts to aeronautics research — long one of the agency's cornerstones - would endanger the country's lead in aviation. NASA's role in the industry goes mainly unseen by the public, but is knowledgeable by nearly anyone who boards an airplane. Its contributions comprise deicing technology and engine research that has led to safer, quieter and more fuel efficient airplanes.
The agency's aeronautics program is organism efficient to meet President Bush's focus on the human looking at of space. The president's 2007 budget proposal for NASA might cut 18% from aeronautics research, leaving it $724 million, down from more than $1 billion in 2004.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin compared aeronautics' fate to that of glide rule makers in the United States.
"The last slide rule maker went out of business I think in 1975," he said June 5 when announcing work for several centers on a space vehicle. "We simply are not doing all of the things that all of our centers once did."
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