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The budget presented by the White House today proposes that the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receive a 3 percent boost in overall funding for fiscal year 2013. This would bring the total funds made available to the organization to $5.06 billion (€3.85 billion).
The good news is that the cr... |
14 February 2012
11:05 GMT |
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The US Department of Commerce's (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will receive a total of $857 million (€651.92 million) for the fiscal year 2013. This represents a 14 percent increase from FY2012 levels, and sets the Institute on target for a budget doubling by 2016.
The funding... |
14 February 2012
10:54 GMT |
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) may receive a budget of $1.1 billion (€840 million) for Fiscal Year 2013. The President's 2013 budget request is about $34.5 million above 2012 levels, an increase that reflects the high performances that the federal agency displayed this year.
Studies such as th... |
14 February 2012
03:14 GMT |
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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration requested a budget of $17.7 billion (€13.46 billion) for Fiscal Year 2013. NASA says that this level of funding will be sufficient to allow the United States to maintain its leadership status in space.
The budget includes $627.6 million for the James Webb Spa... |
14 February 2012
02:49 GMT |
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Sources close to US President Barack Obama say that he will ask for a budget of $17.7 billion (€13.34 billion) for NASA this fiscal year. This sum is the lowest the American space agency was proposed to receive over the last four years, analysts say.
The forthcoming 2013 budget proposal is expected to severely ... |
13 February 2012
03:43 GMT |
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The 2012 NASA budget bill proposed by the US House Appropriations commerce, justice, science subcommittee calls for the cancellation of the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), but the scientific community is highlighting just how devastating that would be. Over the past decades, it's undeniable that remarkab... |
8 July 2011
03:51 GMT |
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On April 8, the US Congress and the White House managed to reach a compromise on how the 2011 budget should look like. In a statement posted on the House Appropriations Committee website on April 12, the official budget for the American space agency was $18.485 billion.This represents a 1.3 percent decreased from 201... |
14 April 2011
04:36 GMT |
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25 October 2010
06:28 GMT |
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“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” will be a different kettle of fish than the previous three installments in the franchise. Not only will it include new cast members, but it will also be subject to budget limitations, which was never the case with the other films in the series. “Pirates ... |
6 May 2010
04:09 GMT |
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Under the 2011 budget proposal, the American space agency would need to cancel its Project Constellation approach to go back to the Moon. Instead, it would invest about $6 billion in private companies, for developing space-bound space capsules and delivery systems. The plan was heavily criticized for lack of vision, ... |
24 March 2010
03:40 GMT |
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According to an email obtained by Space, it would appear that officials at NASA are developing a new plan for space exploration that would most likely include a host of compromises. Opposition for the new budget proposal is fierce in Congress, especially as far as the space exploration program goes. Representatives a... |
5 March 2010
02:30 GMT |
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Speaking yesterday, February 24, in front of senators, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said that sending astronauts to Mars was even at this time the agency's primary objective. Despite the fact that some of the basic technological capabilities for this are missing, and that the objective is at ... |
25 February 2010
03:53 GMT |
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Any good businessman/businesswoman will tell you that you need to spend money to make money. Success or failure is entirely motivated by the investments you make. The second part is true, even if you don’t actually have money to invest and you are barely scraping up money for rent. That is why a simple budgetin... |
8 February 2010
12:21 GMT |
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In addition to sacking NASA's plans to go to the Moon by 2020, the new budget proposal that the White House forwarded to the Congress also includes more funding for basic science. Despite the federal freeze that has been proposed on all non-defense discretionary spending, American science agencies and organizati... |
3 February 2010
03:58 GMT |
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Charles Bolden, the NASA administrator, will reveal in a February 1 meeting the goal, expenditures and priorities that the agency will focus on in 2011. The space agency is in the midst of a hot debate at this point, in the sense that various panels and reports are arguing for and against the ARES I rocket and the Or... |
28 January 2010
03:01 GMT |
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As far as a single nation and official involvement goes, America is without a doubt the most active country from a military standpoint. And above everything else, wars need soldiers. The old “Uncle Sam wants you!” line doesn't really work anymore, so the Army had to catch up with the times. The way i... |
9 December 2009
05:49 GMT |
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This December, James Cameron and fantasy-film fans will be treated to what is deemed one of the most ambitious and potentially successful projects of almost two decades: Cameron’s “Avatar.” However, boasting an estimated budget of about $500 million and almost no star power, while neither a story wi... |
9 November 2009
11:39 GMT |
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Money represent one of the most important and annoying things ever invented for human mankind. We work for money, and then we spend them to drink water, eat food, keep a roof above our heads, and satisfy our needs in every way we can. Your lifestyle depends on how much cash you have, and this involves how much you ea... |
14 December 2008
07:47 GMT |
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Following the glitches in September, known as "quench" happening during the "S34 Incident," which affected sectors 3-4 of the Large Hadron Collider's ring, the repairs were estimated to cost about 35 million Swiss francs ($29 million), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced yesterday. Ac... |
6 December 2008
04:33 GMT |
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We've all heard or read news about the current economic crisis and felt the price of gas and bread going up and up. However shallow it may sound, I'm sure the inner fashionistas in each and every one of us have asked themselves the following very selfish question: how does the recession affect our spending ... |
19 June 2008
06:52 GMT |
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Working for Google is like a trip to paradise and most people who have been employed by the Mountain View-based company confirm it. Free food, swimming pools, restaurants, fast-foods, pool tables and gyms. They're all free for the Google employees. But, have you ever asked yourself how much is Google spending on... |
25 April 2008
04:31 GMT |
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AdWords clients were announced about a beta version of a new feature, dubbed Automatic Matching. Google might have wanted to keep working on it or to never have come up with it at all, by the waves it stirred. The feature will redirect the remaining sum of daily budget, if any, into what the Mountain View-based compa... |
26 February 2008
17:06 GMT |
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First off, let me just say this: as much as I love me some good kickass Spider-Man action, the amount that is circulated in the media as the overall budget for the making of '3' is waaaaay out there! Sure, I know that it's probably the best of the three installments (at least, that's what the enti... |
24 April 2007
08:33 GMT |
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