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As expected, the House Appropriations Committee subcommittee for VA, HUD, and independent agencies cut NASA’s FY2005 budget request during a markup session Tuesday. Perhaps the only surprise is the depth of the cut: the subcommittee cut the $16.2-billion budget by $1.1 billion, $229 million below the agency’s FY04 budget. The cuts came from “the elimination […] That’s the prediction of Rep. James Walsh (R-NY), who chairs the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee that deals with VA, HUD, and independent agencies like NASA. That subcommittee is scheduled to meet Tuesday and mark up their FY2005 budget bill. In an article in Monday’s Syracuse Post-Standard, Walsh said that this year’s budget will […] What do Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) have in common? A particularly strong affinity for the shuttle, it appears, based on an essay jointly written by the two published in Sunday’s Florida Today. The essay starts as a fairly generic endorsement of the Vision for Space Exploration, but later on the […] During an opening address Friday morning at the Return to the Moon 5 conference in Las Vegas, Space Frontier Foundation cofounder Rick Tumlinson mentioned in passing that there may be problems in the Senate for NASA’s Centennial Challenges program: You realize that Centennial Challenges are basically dead right now. Does anybody realize that? It’s kind […] The House Science Committee has issued a press release about the hearing it held yesterday on NASA prizes. Overall the hearing seemed quite positive (I wasn’t present but watched the webcast). The hearing did reveal that issue that prize proponents will have to deal with, beyond issues of how to structure prizes and run competitions, […] There have been a few comments here and here about this week’s Moon-Mars Blitz organized by the Space Exploration Alliance here in DC. I didn’t participate in the event, but I talked Tuesday with several people who did take part, and they were, in general, quite positive about their efforts. I’ve included below a report […] For whose who missed the discussion about this hearing last week, the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee is holding a hearing Thursday morning about the role prizes and competition can play in space exploration. The lineup of witnesses is slightly different than what was reported last week, with Robert Walker and Douglas Holtz-Eakin (director of […] Space News notes in its print edition this week that Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), who placed a hold on HR 3752 in the Senate, plans to lift that hold by July 23 regardless of whether a compromise is reached on the language in the bill. The article—which mostly provides background about the bill’s odyssey since […] Clark Lindsey reports at HobbySpace RLV News today that for HR3752 to be enacted this year, the Senate needs to pass it by July 20; after that the legislative calendar becomes too crowded with other issues to devote any time to it. I have not heard the July 20 deadline before, but it makes some […] In his speech, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay mentioned that the House Appropriations Committee plans to mark up the NASA budget bill before it leaves for August recess in a couple weeks. His comments suggested that the committee might not give NASA the budget increase that the Bush Administration requested: “I encourage you to […] |
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