Rainy Day NASA Account?

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cybersix

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I've always wondered why NASA doesn't simply save a significant portion of its budget for a few years, so that it can do some high cost projects without being tied to the 4 year political timetable.<br /><br />Strip down, pay wages and fixed costs(hubble, servicing,etc), and just save for a given time period, socking it away into a 'savings account' of investments.<br /><br />If there was discipline, NASA could have a one time budget of 100 billion in 10 years, enough to do the really exciting stuff that the public wants to see.
 
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cybersix

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is it possible for that policy to be changed and if so who's the boss who can make it happen?
 
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drwayne

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Its true for all federal projects. It leads to having to do procurements in many cases in orders and times that make not much sense.<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>
 
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CalliArcale

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Actually, a lot of corporations have similar policies in place, where projects and/or departments have to submit their planned expenses for the next fiscal year and if they don't use it all up, that is taken into account when the budget is allocated for the next year. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>
 
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