FY 2006 Budget Page
Items listed in reverse time order (oldest at bottom).
December 12, 2005 -The Congress is in session at least through Friday December 16 to pass the FY2006 appropriations bills. Although NASA and NSF have received their proposed budgets from both the Senate and House, in the final negotiations on the Dept. of Defense and NIH budgets an additional cut, as high as 2%, is expected to be applied to the appropriations levels as passed by the two houses of Congress. Excellent summaries of the NASA and NSF budgets have been prepared by the staff of the R&D Funding Program, a part of the AAAS Science and Public Policy Program. Both agencies receive some level of increase compared to FY2005, but the NASA increases go in the large part to development of a Crew Exploration Vehicle and restoration of mid-year funding cuts to science R&D, while the NSF increase is only marginal.
November 9, 2005 - The House-Sentate Conference Committee has released their report on the Science, State, Justice, Commerce Appropriations bill. It is currently available through the following link FY2006 Appropriations Table. Click on the link for H.Rept. 109-272.
June 9, 2005 - The House Science, State, Justice and Related Agencies appropriations committee has released its report language on the FY 2006 budget. A press release is available here. Check back here for an analysis and details during the week of June 13-17.
March 22, 2005 - The AAAS has released its Analysis of R&D in the FY 2006 Budget. Read a summary online here, and the whole book here including a chapter on astronomy (PDF) in the FY 2006 budget.
February 9, 2005 - Little in either the NSF or NASA budgets related to astronomy is a surprise. Basically a flat budget with some small decreases in the NASA budget for programs not directly related to the President's Vision for space exploration.
February 7, 2005 - Chairman Boehlert (R-NY) releases statement critical of the FY 2006 science budget
February 7, 2005 - The President has released the FY 2006 budget. A summary of the R&D portion of the budget is available here.