House vote on NASA authorization bill stalls
AUG 02, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024549
Space News : The US House of Representatives failed to voteâmdash;before going on summer breakâmdash;on a NASA authorization bill that would set funding levels for the space agency. The bill would have authorized NASA to spend $19 billion per year through 2013. Controversially, it would have restored NASA’s space shuttle replacement program, Constellation, which had been targeted for termination by the Obama administration. Several space organizations, such as the Commercial Spaceflight Federation and the Planetary Society, had argued against rushing the measure to a vote. Even if the authorization bill had passed, Congress still has to pass an appropriations bill to fund NASA.
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