How To Do This We strongly urge you to write letters, then either snail-mail them or fax them before the end of the week. Yes, we know, writing letters and physically mailing them is a thrash, faxing them only a bit less so. The congressional staffers who'll be dealing with your messages know this too. They tend to give weight to incoming messages according to degree of difficulty in sending them - the harder it was for you, the more they figure you care. Please, send letters if you can, otherwise phone.
Letters Keep it to one page, short, neat, to the point, and above all polite.
Calls Phone the DC office numbers during east coast business hours, and tell whoever answers you have some questions about the NASA budget. You may redistribute this Update in any medium you choose, as long as you do it unedited in its entirety.