http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/10/01/unjustified-celebration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unjustified-celebration Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/10/01/unjustified-celebration/#comment-132871 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:57:47 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1749#comment-132871 This difference between an authorization and an appropriation was surprising and confusing to me as a visitor to Congress in support of the space program. The staffers had to explain the whole budget process in detail for our group to understand why NASA keeps falling short in their budgets. I think this difference between the long-term plan of what Congress says NASA should get and what is actually given to NASA in the annual budget is almost unknown in the space activist community. Perhaps it is unknown in the journalistic community as well?
Thanks for highlighting this misunderstanding in the Houston Chronicle. We still need to push for Congress to actually fulfill their promise for $20.2 billion!

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