The Texas congressional delegation pressed ahead Tuesday with an uphill, election-year effort to boost NASA’s $17.3 billion budget so the space agency can close the five-year gap between retirement of the shuttle fleet and the next generation of manned spacecraft.
Read More at Houston Chronicle…
“We write to urge you to include $2 billion in funding for NASA in either a second economic stimulus package or the supplemental appropriations bill.”
Briefings with congressional staff continue after the Administration cleared language to amend the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act (P.L. 109-112).
Science editor Alan Boyle’s blog: Are women — or shoddy workmanship — responsible for this month’s wayward landing of a Russian spaceship? The blame game could have an impact on future spaceflights.
Statement by William H. Gerstenmaier Hearing on NASA’s International Space Station
Statement by Cristina T. Chaplain Hearing on NASA’s International Space Station
The nation’s three-ship space shuttle fleet faces “significant challenges” in completing construction and continuing operation of the $31 billion International Space Station, raising the possibility of Draconian cutbacks at the orbiting exploration and scientific facility, the Government Accountability Office warned Congress on Thursday.
NASA’s associate chief for space operations told U.S. lawmakers that astronauts won’t ride on the Soyuz again until Russia determines why the capsule had such a rough re-entry April 19 and landed hundreds of miles off course.
Read More at Hartford Courant…
