Tag: NASA Budget

  • House bill backs exploration at the expense of Earth science

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    NASA’s famous “blue marble” photo taken by astronauts on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Credit: NASA A draft policy outline passed on a party-line vote by a House committee last week calls for redirecting funding from NASA’s Earth science programs into the space agency’s heavy-lift rocket and Orion crew capsule programs, an outcome NASA’s…

  • NASA presses Congress for more commercial crew funding

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    NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden speaks to reporters during a Jan. 26 press conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz The Obama administration has requested more than $1.2 billion from congressional appropriators next year to meet NASA’s funding commitments for Boeing and SpaceX’s commercial crew ferry spacecraft, and anything less could delay…

  • NASA outlines FY 2016 budget request

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden delivers remarks at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: NASA/Gianni Woods The Obama administration’s fiscal 2016 budget includes $18.5 billion for NASA — a half-billion-dollar increase — that continues development of a new mega-rocket and capsule for deep space exploration and significantly boosts…