TABLE 1

[In billions of dollars]

NASA's FY 1998 budget to Congress	$17.4
Russian program assurance ($250M)	0.2
Crew rescue vehicle	0.5
Program growth	0.9
July 2002-November 2002	0.7
NASA's FY 1999 budget to Congress (development complete)	19.7
Crew rescue vehicle	0.2
November 2002-December 2003	1.4
NASA's FY 1999 budget to Congress (assembly complete)	21.3

TABLE 2

Beginning of Year	19,500
1st Quarter	19,200
2nd Quarter	19,000
3rd Quarter	18,875
4th Quarter	18,750

TABLE 3

MINORITY AMERICANS AND WOMEN SES's

	FY 93	FY 94	FY 95	FY 96	FY 97	FY 98 (1st. 6 Months)

Minorities	32	46	48	51	45	47
Women	31	42	49	51	55	57

TABLE 4

BASIS OF FY 1999 FUNDING REQUIREMENT—EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

[THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS]

	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999

Learning tools	2,000	1,700	1,900
Demonstrations	2,000	2,000	1,800
HPCC	1,400	4,200	4,000
Museum Initiative/American Museum of Natural History	8,000
Upgrades to Mobile Aeronautics Education Lab	300
Feasibility Study, National Residential High School, LeRC	250
Replication of Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Engineering Academy (SEMMA)	300	¹[3,300]
Classroom of the Future, Astronomy Village	300
Bishop Museum/National Prototype Space Education Curriculum	1,600	1,000
Alaska Learning Center		1,300
Apple Valley, California Learning Center		800
K 12 Telecommunications		2,000
Louisiana Daily Living Center		1,000
Pennsylvania Education Telecommunications Center		700
California Discovery Science Center		500
Total	16,200	15,200	7,700

¹Additional funding for SEMMA included in Other Minority Universities/Minority University Research and Education Program in FY 1997 and in FY 1998 as directed by Congress.

TABLE 5

[Fiscal year estimate]

	Dollars			FTE
	1997	1998	1999	1997	1998	1999
FY 98 budget request for compensation and benefits	$1,581.9	1,586.0		20,501	19,559
FY 99 budget request for compensation and benefits	¹1,547.1	1,550.0	1,535.8	¹19,883	19,364	18,519
Change from estimate	¹(34.8)	(36.0)		¹(618)	(195)
Change from year to year		+2.9	(–14.2)		(414)	(845)

¹Actual.