. "APPENDIX A: FEDERAL FUNDING DATA." Plasma Science: From Fundamental Research to Technological Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1995.
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Plasma Science: From Fundamental Research to Technological Applications
TABLE A.1 Plasma Science Funding (current million dollars)—AFOSR, ONR, DOE
a The 1989 number is approximate. The large increase in 1992 combines data analysis with nonplasma instrument costs, cameras, cosmic-ray instruments, and so on, for the Pioneer and Voyager missions.
and basic plasma science with 22%. The reviewer's conclusion was that "support for plasma science and technology at NSF is very thin."1
With the above identified weaknesses, Tables A.1 and A.2 present a picture of the problems of plasma science funding. The programs listed in Table A.1, which fund small efforts in basic science, have not kept up with inflation, which totaled 13% from 1989 to 1992,2 much less expanded to match the potential of
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"Plasma Science and Technology at NSF," prepared by Tim Eastman, NSF Atmospheric Sciences Division, May 10, 1993.
