By Jeff Foust on 2005 June 28 at 7:25 am ET Last week I noted an Iowa newspaper column that attempted to pit NASA against funding for drug enforcement measures. Sunday’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review featured a letter to the editor in a similar vein:
I don’t understand their decision not to transfer funds from a space program to a program that provides grants to state and local […]
By Jeff Foust on 2005 June 28 at 7:15 am ET As announced last week, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin will be the sole witness at a full House Science Committee hearing this morning on “The Future of NASA”. The hearing will take place at 10 am in Rayburn 2318 and will be webcast. In addition, the space subcommittee has added a markup session for Wednesday afternoon […]
By Jeff Foust on 2005 June 24 at 7:06 am ET First, the Senate Approprations Committee approved unanimously the Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations bill. The press release announcing the bill’s approval offers no details, but since the NASA overall budget number remains unchanged at $16.4 billion, it seems the full committee did little or nothing to change the subcommittee’s work earlier this week.
What did […]
By Jeff Foust on 2005 June 23 at 7:52 am ET The energy bill currently being debated by the Senate will “probably” include a provision that could support NASA’s Glenn Research Center, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Thursday. Ohio’s two senators, George Voinovich and Mike DeWine, are backing a provision that would authorize the Energy Department to spend $300 million over five years to develop more […]
By Jeff Foust on 2005 June 23 at 7:44 am ET The ongoing debate on whether NASA should adopt a shuttle-derived or EELV-derived approach for a future heavy-lift launch vehicle (HLLV) or CEV launch vehicle has made its way into the FY06 Defense Department appropriations bill, according to a report in Thursday’s Deseret News. The Salt Lake City newspaper reported that Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) “also […]
By Jeff Foust on 2005 June 22 at 1:05 pm ET The Senate Appropriations Committee’s commerce, justice, and science subcommittee marked up its FY2006 appropriations bill Tuesday, including $16.4 billion for NASA. That figure includes $250 million added at the behest of Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) to provide funding for any Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission NASA may approve. (NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has previously said […]
By Jeff Foust on 2005 June 21 at 1:19 pm ET The Senate Commerce Committee has scheduled a markup hearing this Thursday at 10 am to handle, among other matters, a proposed NASA authorization bill. The committee’s science and space subcommittee has not held its own hearing on the bill, which doesn’t even have a bill number yet.
While earlier reports indicated that the House Science […]
By Jeff Foust on 2005 June 18 at 2:31 pm ET I wrote in the previous post that while the House has passed the appropriations bill that includes NASA, there was no sign of when the Senate would take action. Oops, my bad. The Senate Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice, and Science subcommittee is scheduled to mark up its appropriations bill in a hearing Tuesday afternoon. The […]
By Jeff Foust on 2005 June 16 at 8:24 pm ET By the very wide margin of 418-7, the full House passed HR 2862, the appropriations bill that includes $16.5 billion for NASA. There were no other NASA-related amendments posed during the final hours of debate on the bill. Needless to say, NASA administrator Michael Griffin is happy to get the budget passed. Now it’s on […]
By Jeff Foust on 2005 June 16 at 7:46 am ET The full House continued its debate on HR 2862 Wednesday, handing a number of proposed amendments. The House did approve, on voice votes, two NASA related amendments. One, by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), would “prohibit the use of funds from being available to deny the production of safety reports regarding the NASA Space Shuttle program […]
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