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Senate passes NASA budget

The Senate passed its version of the Commerce/Justice/Science appropriations bill on Thursday, approving the $48.9-billion bill on a 91-4 vote. The bill includes $16.4 billion for NASA in FY06, $60 million less than what the President requested and $75 million less than what the House approved earlier this year. There appears to be no significant changes to the NASA portion of the bill since its passage by the Senate Appropriations Committee this summer; a bid to restore full funding to NASA’s aeronautics program failed. This bill will have to be reconciled with the House version.

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