Space Forum / Shuttle / March 2008

Awaiting crew conf, as I missed it yesterday.

Anyway, there were a lot of questions about support after the current budget
etc, for the station. It seems to me that the current budget term for these
sort of projects is way too  small. Being  as manyscience projects do take a
long time to  bear fruit, and incredibly small amount per taxpayer it
actually costs, is there not a  case for some kind of long term budgeting
agreed by all parties so that when admin changes, we don't get this shock
horror hand wringing I don't know  situation every time.

You need big science, its been proved many times. The fact that you cannot
point to  what you intend to do in the future and say, it will have this
effect by a certain date should not be  a reason not to do it.

Brian