One of the things NASA is doing to try to ensure they aren't touched in all of this economic rearranging is announcing the cutting of some VERY important programs. NASA recently announced that they have to cut funding to the program that catalogs and tracks space debris. If they do that, the International Space Station won't last very long! Neither will any sort of Missile Defense System that the government cooks up, or any satellite currently in orbit. By threatening to cut this program, NASA has ensured that several important government officials, many in the military, will descend on Washington demanding that they give NASA enough money to keep the program going.

NASA may be a notorious underperformer, but I doubt it will be scrapped. Maybe they'll just start sending millionare tourists into space like the Russians!

Nathan