2014 NASA budget at $17.6 billion now waiting for approval.

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Accounting for inflation despite the budget remaining approximately the same (within terms of 100 millions dollars), its still declining by nearly a billion a year due to inflation.

Point taken, but that's only true if inflation is running at 6+%/year..

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=17600000000+%2F+%281+%2...

If inflation last year was 2%, it's only really a reduction of $345mm in real dollars.

Compared to when? I'm not sure I follow how you arrived at the $1 billion decline per year.

From 2009 to 2010 NASA's budget was decreased by ~300million per year, yet adjusted for 2007 dollars, the budget fell by ~900million to 1 billion dollars per year.

Interesting enough inflation is a strange metric. From 2008 to 2009 NASA's budget was increased 300million, yet in 2007 dollars it only rose 100million.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

Entire pdf of the budget, NASA on page 158. http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20140113/CPRT-113-HPRT-R...

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