http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/01/20/gordon-confirms-nasa-authorization-in-the-works/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gordon-confirms-nasa-authorization-in-the-works 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/2010/01/20/gordon-confirms-nasa-authorization-in-the-works/#comment-280925 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:09:40 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2975#comment-280925 This is an ambitious schedule. First of all, as Gordon noted in his press release, reauthorization of America COMPETES is by far the most important job for the committee. It affects a number of different agencies and, much moreso than NASA, really drives the national innovation agenda. Secondly, and with respect to sentiments expressed at the House Science hearings with Norm Augustine, an FY11 budget that pulls the rug out from under Constellation is going to engender some serious head butting between the Administration and Congress, and that’s just going to jam up the authorization machinery. But Hall is exactly right. The nation’s space program is at a critical juncture, and FY11 NASA appropriations are going to be a real mess if not guided by a fresh auth bill that formalizes congressional perspectives.

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