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[The combination of the August doldrums as well as being on travel this week has contributed to the lack of postings. My apologies.] The results of the compromise on HR 3752 are now available in the form of S.2772, the Space Commercial Human Ascent Serving Expeditions (CHASE) Act. This is a new bill that, presumably, […] A UPI article published late Thursday argued that the growing costs of returning the shuttle to flight will make it difficult, it not impossible, for NASA to afford any kind of shuttle or robotic Hubble servicing mission without, perhaps, sacrificing money from the exploration plan: …if NASA does decide to send a shuttle to the […] The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the cost of returning the space shuttle fleet to flight is going up, perhaps as much as $900 million over what was originally expected. Those cost increases could affect other, unspecified NASA programs as the agency seeks additional funding within the agency before asking Congress for more. That turn […] Lost in all the discussion this week about that whole, well, bunnysuit thing, was this Space News article about renewed efforts to get funding for NASA’s Centennial Challenges program this fiscal year. An earlier effort to reprogram $2 million from the FY04 budget to permit an initial series of small-scale prizes was rebuffed by the […] Lost in all the discussion about the NASA budget in the House last week was the Senate’s effort to press ahead with a NASA authorization bill. The full Senate Commerce Committee was scheduled to consider the bill during a markup session last Thursday (the same day that the House Appropriations Committee was meeting on the […] The Washington Post reported Saturday that two members of the House Science Committee have asked the Bush Administration to find funding to keep the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft operating. Committee chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) and space subcommittee ranking member Nick Lampson (D-TX) wrote separate letters—Boehlert to science advisor John Marburger and Lampson to […] MSNBC’s Alan Boyle reports that a compromise has finally been reached on HR 3752, ending a deadlock that had blocked passage of the bill for months. There had been concerns by Rocketplane Ltd. that the definition of suborbital vehicles in the bill, which refers to a rocket-propelled vehicle, might exclude their vehicle, which uses both […] The full House Appropriations Committee approved the VA-HUD spending bill on Thursday. According to the press release issued late Thursday, it appears the full committee accepted the cuts in NASA’s budget made by the VA-HUD subcommittee on Tuesday without any changes: the numbers quoted look unchanged from what was announced Tuesday. On Thursday NASA issued […] An article in this morning’s Washington Post has some more details about the NASA budget cuts approved by the VA-HUD subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday. The Post obtained a copy of the committee’s “as-yet-unpublished report” on the spending measure and found that the committee is not opposed to the exploration vision, only […] The full Senate Commerce committee is scheduled to meet Thursday morning to handle a number of bills and nominations. Included in the list is S.2541, the NASA authorization bill introduced last month. Not listed is HR 3752, so I assume that bill is still tied up in a debate over definitions. Thursday afternoon the space […] |
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