From Glenn Orton's IJW Atmospheres Newsletter

Funding:

  The word from Ed Barker and Jurgen Rahe:
              NASA received 55 proposals requesting a total of $2,903,900 for
              the SL9 NRA.

  The word from Vernon Pankonin:
              NSF received 43 proposals requesting a total of $3,208,330
              in the first year of SL9 funding (some proposals covered more
              than one year).

  The total is 98 proposals for $6,112,230 (ave. = $62,369.98).  According to
              Ed. Barker, there were 12 - 13 NASA-directed proposals that were
              identical to NSF proposals or nearly so.  Using the average
              value for the grant request for this duplication, the total
              (NASA + NSF) request is on the order of $5,300,000 - or a factor
              of 3.6 oversubscription of requested to available funding
              ($1,500,000).