The Los Angeles Daily News reports that Congress “is expected to reach agreement this month” on a NASA authorization bill. House and Senate staff have been working to reconcile differences between their two versions of the legislation, S. 1281 and HR 3070, and conferees will meet this month to finish the work. The article doesn’t have any specifics about the status of the negotiations, and looks only at the high-level issues handled by the bill, including the formal Congressional endorsement of the Vision for Space Exploration and the expansion of the Centennial Challenges prize program.
It expands the authority but does it restore the funding necessary to use that authority?