Mar 1 1975
From The Space Library
A Baltimore Sun editorial discussed "Distorted Priorities in the R&D Budget." The President's R&D budget for FY 1976 had little chance of passage in its existing form because of the hostility of much of the 98th Congress to some of its proposals. Defense-related R&D would be reduced, the energy proposals would be juggled to give more to solar and geothermal energy, and the proposed large cuts in biomedical research would be restored.
Congress might be more sympathetic to NASA. Once seen by congressional critics as a quasi-military organization or at least "a space circus that siphoned dollars away from more pressing needs," NASA was "beginning to prove itself a valuable scientific tool" in such valuable areas as environmental monitoring. That the Office of Management and Budget had not, as once threatened, scrapped funds for the Landsat- C satellite "may reflect an effort to make NASA more attractive by further pushing the agency into the areas that have gained humanist and environmentalist approval." (B Sun, 1 March 75, A18)
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