I haven't had much to say about the submitted NASA budget, because I've been really busy (and have some personal problems right now), but there's a lot of good discussion over at Space Politics (there are other posts on the subject as well).

Jeff Foust noted yesterday that it's crunch time for NASA, sooner than many expected. I agree with Chair Force Engineer that if the program dies, or never gets beyond LEO, it will be an own goal by Griffin and company, who insisted on building new unneeded launch systems instead of focusing the funds on actual exploration hardware.

[Update a few minutes later]

Clark Lindsey has been doing some budget analysis to determine the potential fate of Centennial Challenges and COTS.

It's not much, but given your last article about certain astronaut's behavior, NASA could be saving the cost of 3 salaries this morning.

But Rand, Skip Hatfield reassures the contractor team weekly that CR or no, Orion is funded just fine and there is absolutely nothing to worry about...

What are you talking about? Orion hasn't been funded since the early 60s.