NASA Scientists Fight Budget Cuts with 'Bake Sale'

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The sale is a protest of plans in President Obama's 2013 budget request to cut 21 percent from NASA's planetary-science budget, and 38 percent from its Mars projects It has come to this: planetary scientists across the United States hawked baked goods to the public on Saturday in an effort to drum up awareness of their field's dwindling financial ... (more)

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Lonewolf

Leesville, SC

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NASA wastes so much money based on fantasy it's a crime.Shut down this bogus government money pit.

just saying

Reynoldsburg, OH

Lonewolf wrote:

NASA wastes so much money based on fantasy it's a crime.Shut down this bogus government money pit.

How much of the federal budget do you think goes to NASA? 5%? 10%? 20%?

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