NASA Doesn't Receive Enough Money for Mandated Asteroid Search
13 Aug 2009, 12:59 UTC
In 2005, the US Congress mandated that NASA discover 90 percent of all near-Earth objects 140 meters in diameter or greater by 2020. But they forgot one minor detail: Congress or the administration did not request or appropriate any new funds to meet this objective, and with NASA's existing budget, there is no way NASA can meet the mandated goal.
Does anyone else see a pattern here?
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