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The launch of a typical NASA planetary mission doesn’t attract too much attention in Congress, but yesterday’s successful launch of the New Horizons mission to Pluto did warrant a couple members to issue press releases. Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO) congratulated NASA on mission, noting that “this mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt and beyond […] The Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill reports on the maneuvering former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is performing to get a seat on a choice appropriations subcommittee, a move that could have ramifications down the road for NASA. After saying earlier this month that he would not seek to regain the majority leadership post, DeLay […] No, there’s no connection between the two (at least for the purposes of this post), but they are both policy-related subjects of articles in this week’s issue of The Space Review. Ryan Zelnio examines the effect stringent satellite export controls have had on US manufacturers; by his estimates these companies have lost several billion dollars […] The big political news from over the weekend was the announcement by Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) that he would no longer seek to regain his former post of House Majority Leader. Given that DeLay was arguably NASA’s most powerful patron on Capitol Hill, this decision—and his ongoing legal troubles—raises the question of just how much […] The Senate approved by unanimous consent yesterday the compromise version of the NASA authorization legislation (S. 1281) hashed out last week in conference and approved Saturday by the House. The bill had been held in the Senate for several days by Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO), reportedly over hypersonics research funding; the Reuters article linked to […] The House passed very early Monday a defense spending bill, attached to which was $29 billion in Hurricane Katrina relief spending. That includes $350 million for NASA to begin repairs at the Michoud Assembly Facility and Stennis Space Center. The OMB had asked for $325 million for such efforts in its FY2006 reallocation package request […] The full House approved the conference report on S.1281, the NASA authorization bill, late Saturday on a voice vote. SpaceRef reports that the Senate has yet to approve the conference report because Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO) has put a hold on the bill in an effort to convince NASA to spend much of the $25 […] Florida Today follows up on the report earlier this week that some members of Congress are lobbying the OMB to increase NASA’s budget to fully fund the shuttle program, saying that without full funding one shuttle orbiter, Atlantis, will have to be mothballed. (Why Atlantis, which is slightly younger than Discovery? The article doesn’t say.) […] A House-Senate conference committee met Thursday afternoon and approved a final version of the NASA authorization bill (using the Senate bill number, S.1281) which will go to the full House and Senate for approval, perhaps by the end of the year. While the conference report has not been published online yet, some details of the […] Backers of a NASA mission to the Jovian moon Europa got some good news in the final version of 2006 budget, which included report language calling on NASA to begin work on a Europa mission to replace the cancellation of the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO), and to include a new start for that mission […] |
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