据美国航天信息中心2006年2月7日报道,美国国家航空航天局(NASA)已经公布总计168亿美元的2007财年预算申请,同比上一财年增长3.2%。其中,航天飞机项目经费削减较大,航空研究项目经费有所减少,用于执行空间探索新构想的开发项目经费大幅增加。下面是其主要项目预算申请。①航天飞机预算申请为40.57亿美元,虽然比2006财年减少7.208亿美元,但仍是NASA预算最大的一项。②长期载人太空飞行预算申请为30.58亿美元,比2006财年增加13.24亿美元,主要用于支持下 According to the U.S. space information center reported on February 7, 2006, NASA has announced a total budget of $ 16.8 billion for fiscal 2007, an increase of 3.2% from the previous fiscal year. Among them, the reduction of funding for the space shuttle project, the reduction of funding for aviation research projects, and the substantial increase in funding for development projects for implementing the new concept of space exploration. The following is the main project budget application. (1) The space shuttle budget applied for a total of 4.057 billion U.S. dollars. Although it dropped 720 million U.S. dollars from the fiscal 2006 level, it is still the largest NASA budget. ② The long-term manned space flight budget application is 3.058 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 1.324 billion U.S. dollars over the fiscal 2006 level, mainly for support