Another Year, Another Set of Bizarre Cuts to NASA's Budget

Every year, when NASA releases its White House budget request, I open the report with dread. Will it show that things are roughly the same as last year, or will there be more bad news, with slashes and cuts to vital programs? And this year, like every other, I read it to find... both. The Fiscal Year 2015 NASA budgetary request is hammered out by the White House with input from the space agency. It is a request; it's not final. Congress must put together their own budget, and then the two are th...