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This afternoon the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to mark up its appropriations legislation, which will include funding for NASA. One particular area of interest will be what the subcommittee does to fund the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) after its House counterparts included no funding for […] Although it wasn’t on the committee’s schedule over the weekend, the Senate Appropriations Committee has added a markup of the Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations bill, which includes NASA and NOAA, for Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 pm. That will be followed by a full committee markup of the same bill Thursday at 2 pm. As […] The Senate Appropriations Committee has yet to formally markup its version of the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) appropriations bill (it’s not on the schedule for this coming week), but there is one sign that its budgets, including those for NASA and NOAA, won’t be as constrained as what their House colleagues faced this summer. […] The Senate Appropriations Committee passed this week its 2012 energy and water appropriations bill, which includes funding for the Department of Energy (DOE). Senate appropriators, though, decided not to fund the administration’s request for $15 million for DOE to restart production of plutonium-238 (Pu-238), an isotope used in radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) for NASA science […] This morning Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and Bill Nelson (D-FL), the ranking member of the full Senate Commerce Committee and chairman of its space subcommittee, respectively, issued a press release about the status of the administration’s plans (or lack thereof) for the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket. The press release came in response […] The Wall Street Journal reports today that the White House is concerned that NASA’s exploration plans may not be affordable over the long haul. Specifically, the concern within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is whether Congress would be willing to spend as much as $62 billion through 2025 to develop the Space Launch […] A couple brief notes on a quiet holiday weekend: A little over a week ago, Florida Sens. Bill Nelson (D) and Marco Rubio (R) sent a letter to the White House countering claims in another letter by five other senators that money appropriated for the Space Launch System (SLS) was being “misallocated” to facility upgrades […] Last week, the failure of a Soyuz rocket carrying a Progress cargo spacecraft to the ISS, thus raising the risk the Soyuz crewed spacecraft could be grounded for an extended period, prompted one member of Congress to call for “emergency” funding for NASA’s commercial crew development efforts, while another argued that NASA should accelerate work […] It’s frequently noted here and elsewhere that space issues do not follow party lines closely, if at all, with differences of opinion more likely to be along regional or other lines than party affiliation. That’s demonstrated in the last few days by a couple of statements on space issues by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), working […] One of the more controversial decisions that NASA has made in the last six months has had nothing to do with the Space Launch System, Commercial Crew Development, or James Webb Space Telescope programs. Instead, it was the agency’s decision, announced April 12, on where the shuttle orbiters will be displayed upon retirement. The decision […] |
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