Congress to Trim NASA Budget?
If Congress clears a mid-year spending bill next week as planned, it will be the seventh time since 1994 that lawmakers have approved a cut for the nation’s space agency, according to an analysis of NASA budget documents.Some lawmakers who represent communities with NASA field operations like Kennedy Space Center warned that the spending squeeze would hurt the nation’s program to build new space capsules and rockets to take astronauts back to the moon. Read more
