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They are NOT on a tight budget - even with the entire shuttle fleet shut down, they're spending more than they have in all but a few years since 1970.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
$17 BILLION may not sound like much in the insane scale of other federal spending, but it's a vast amount by any other scale.
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They are NOT on a tight budget - even with the entire shuttle fleet shut down, they're spending more than they have in all but a few years since 1970.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
$17 BILLION may not sound like much in the insane scale of other federal spending, but it's a vast amount by any other scale.