House committee shrinks key element of White House’s NASA plan
JUL 21, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024517
New York Times : The House authorization committee that oversees NASA yesterday shrank from $6 billion to $0.75 billion the amount of money NASA is allowed to spend on commercial launch vehicles. Senate authorizers had also proposed a cut, but to $1.3 billion. A shift from federal to commercial launches is a key element of President Obama’s NASA overhaul. Both the White House and the Senate authorizers called for the cancellation of NASA’s Ares-1 heavy-lift vehicle; the House authorization bill does not.
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