Congress, NASA

NASA goes back to the drawing board for its 2013 operating plan

While House and Senate appropriators are working on fiscal year 2014 appropriations bills to fund NASA, the agency is still working with Congress for agreement on an operating plan for fiscal year 2013 (which, yes, ends in just two and a half months.) As first reported by The Planetary Society, NASA planetary sciences division director Jim Green said Monday that Congress had rejected an operating plan NASA submitted to Congress in May. The reason for the rejection wasn’t reported, but it’s widely speculated that the issue is that the plan sought to reprogram additional planetary sciences funding provided in the final FY13 appropriations bill elsewhere in the agency, returning planetary to the $1.2 billion in the administration’s original request. The revised draft of the operating plan, under development, “will more closely align planetary funding to congressional intent,” according to the Planetary Society report.

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