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Chart: Planetary Science Budget Uncertainty (pre-Operating Plan)

Chart: Planetary Science Budget Uncertainty (pre-Operating Plan)
Chart: Planetary Science Budget Uncertainty (pre-Operating Plan) Differences in the actual budgets of NASA's Planetary Science Division compared to recent Presidential budget requests. The increase in 2014 is entirely due to moving Plutonium-238 funding into the program (from the DoE) and additional money for asteroid detection in service of the proposed asteroid retrieval mission. At the time of this chart, NASA's FY13 operating plan details were not known. NAC