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The Senate Appropriations Committee has released the report accompanying its fiscal year 2012 Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations bill, offering more details about the $17.9 billion it proposes for NASA. Here’s a summary chart comparing the president’s budget request (PBR) for FY12 along with what the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) and Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) […] Most members of Congress—with one notable exception—spoke approvingly of NASA’s announcement Wednesday of the design of the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket, even if they also expressed some frustration that the decision took too long to make or a perceived lack of vision for NASA’s human spaceflight programs. For example, the key senators involved […] The Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee held a brief markup session Wednesday afternoon for its 2012 funding bill. The committee released only a summary of its appropriations bill, which features $17.9 billion for NASA in 2012, less than the $18.7 billion sought by the administration but more than the […] Talk about short notice: early this morning the Senate Commerce Committee send out an advisory that there will be a press conference this morning at 10 am EDT with NASA administrator Charles Bolden and “members of Congress”, including Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and Bill Nelson (D-FL), to “discuss the NASA announcement on the future […] This afternoon the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to mark up its appropriations legislation, which will include funding for NASA. One particular area of interest will be what the subcommittee does to fund the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) after its House counterparts included no funding for […] Although it wasn’t on the committee’s schedule over the weekend, the Senate Appropriations Committee has added a markup of the Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations bill, which includes NASA and NOAA, for Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 pm. That will be followed by a full committee markup of the same bill Thursday at 2 pm. As […] The Senate Appropriations Committee has yet to formally markup its version of the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) appropriations bill (it’s not on the schedule for this coming week), but there is one sign that its budgets, including those for NASA and NOAA, won’t be as constrained as what their House colleagues faced this summer. […] The Senate Appropriations Committee passed this week its 2012 energy and water appropriations bill, which includes funding for the Department of Energy (DOE). Senate appropriators, though, decided not to fund the administration’s request for $15 million for DOE to restart production of plutonium-238 (Pu-238), an isotope used in radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) for NASA science […] This morning Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and Bill Nelson (D-FL), the ranking member of the full Senate Commerce Committee and chairman of its space subcommittee, respectively, issued a press release about the status of the administration’s plans (or lack thereof) for the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket. The press release came in response […] The Wall Street Journal reports today that the White House is concerned that NASA’s exploration plans may not be affordable over the long haul. Specifically, the concern within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is whether Congress would be willing to spend as much as $62 billion through 2025 to develop the Space Launch […] |
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