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There have been a series of articles over the last few days about the increased costs to get the shuttles flying again (references below). My question is how will this affect the new space exploration effort?<br /><br />Here is my concern. <i>Before</i> the revelations of the increased costs NASA and the Whitehouse had asked for an increase in NASA's budget of $866 million for the new vision, but 85% of that increase was to go to shuttle and ISS (old vision). That only left about $130 million for the new vision efforts.<br /><br />Now with shuttle costs for 2005 to be much higher ($112-412 million according to space.com), I don't see how there could be any money left for new vision activities.<br /><br /><br />Cost of Returning Shuttle To Flight Keeps Going Up<br />By Brian Berger<br />Space.com (Space News)<br />http://www.space.com/news/rtf_costs_040716.html<br /><br />Return-to-flight costs soar<br />By Mark Carreau<br />Houston Chronicle<br />http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2686055<br /><br />Shuttles' upgrade bill leaps by 50 percent<br />By Gwyneth K. Shaw<br />Orlando Sentinel<br /> long ULR link<br />