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NASA claims that the $545 million difference in the budget proposed by President Bush and the US congress will cut the asteroid hunting project. Personally I think that this is amazing insight into how the US budgetary process works. NASA has several projects that have recently peaked popular imagination. One of them is the asteroid hunter, the other is the international space station, and the third is the moon colony project. This week NASA released statements about how the asteroid hunter project and the new orbiter (to resupply the space station) were both going to be pushed back or completely nixed by the budget 'short fall'. Go out and call Congress to have these plans fully funded! Certainly. I'm no budget expert, but my guess is that NASA has a lot of new projects on their plate that they are not willing to cut. It seems that they would rather dangle popular projects in front of the budgetary knife. Again, this is just a guess based on years of observing bureaucracy in action.