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Tucked away in last year’s NASA authorization act is a provision calling for an independent study about human spaceflight: SEC. 204. INDEPENDENT STUDY ON HUMAN EXPLORATION OF SPACE. (a) IN GENERAL.-In fiscal year 2012 the Administrator shall contract with the National Academies for a review of the goals, core capabilities, and direction of human […] Rep. Sandy Adams (R-FL) issued a press release Monday about the letter that she and Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) sent last week to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), chairman of the House Budget Committee. As reported last week, Adams and Olson asked Ryan to spare human spaceflight programs from any budget cuts, suggesting that Earth sciences […] Yesterday the Senate passed yet another short-term continuing resolution (CR), extending funding for the federal government for three more weeks, through April 8. That CR cuts $63 million from NASA, targeting earmarks left over from the agency’s FY2010 spending bill. This CR is likely to be the last such stopgap measure before “the decisive showdown […] The Senate Commerce Committee’s space subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday on “Realizing NASA’s Potential: Programmatic Challenges in the 21st Century”, featuring as witnesses six of the agency’s associate administrators, from space operations and exploration to education and mission support. The hearing didn’t result in any major revelations about the agency’s plans, but did seem to […] There’s one thing that both NASA’s leadership and key Congressional figures can agree on: none of them are particularly happy about having to rely on Russia for access to the ISS. They disagree, though, on the best way to eliminate that dependence. NASA on Monday issued a press release about a new deal with the […] House appropriators released today details of their next planned continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded for three more weeks after the current CR expires on a week from Friday. The CR includes $6 billion of spending cuts, including $63 million from NASA’s Cross Agency Support account. The CR specifically targets what NASA calls […] Earlier this week the Senate rejected dueling FY11 spending bills, including both HR 1, which the House passed last month, as well as an alternative from Senate appropriators. Now it appears that the next step will be another short-term continuing resolution (CR), as the current CR expires next Friday. This CR would run for three […] The space shuttle Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center yesterday, wrapping up its 39th mission—and also its final one, as the shuttle program approaches its end later this year. Several members of Congress, and one former member, used the occasion to both congratulate NASA on the completion of the mission and express their views […] The president of Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne had a blunt warning this week for policymakers: get a plan in place for NASA’s future now or industry will suffer the consequences. “NASA has a very short period of time to work with Congress and come up with a unified position and get their act together, and […] The good news: planetary scientists have come up with a fascinating list of missions they have identified as their top priorities for the coming decade. The bad news: there may not be any money for the most ambitious of those proposed missions. Late Monday the National Research Council released the Planetary Science Decadal Survey, a […] |
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