NASA will get close to the administration’s requested 2014 budget in the new Omnibus bill: Appropriators Release FY2014 Omnibus Bill, NASA Does Well – SpacePolicyOnline.com
4,113 million for exploration, of which
* $696 million is for commercial crew, with $171 million available only after the Administrator certifies that the program has undergone an independent benefit-cost analysis
* $1,197 million is for Orion
* $1,918 million is for Space Launch System (SLS) of which $1,600 million is for launch vehicle development and $318 million is for exploration ground systems
* $302 million is for exploration research and development
Of course, there is no independent benefit-cost analysis required before yet another $3 billion goes down the SLS/Orion money pit.
More links:
- Senate Amendment to H.R. 3547—An Act to extend the application of certain space launch… – House Committee on Rules – extension of launch indemnification
- More Years Eyed For ISS, To Increase Utilization – Aviation Week
- International Space Station is good for another 10 years and great for Las Cruces – Pat Hynes/Las Cruces Sun-News
- DARPA Programs Create New Future for Space, Director Says – Defense.gov
- [NASA] looking for taxi firm – Telegraph
- The Axis of Orbit: Iran-DPRK Space Cooperation – 38 North
- Iranian news agency says the U.S. is secretly run by Nazi space aliens. Really. – Washington Post
Update:
- VSE + 10 – Space KSC – Nice review of Pres. Bush’s Vision for Space Exploration
- Omnibus bill gives NASA $17.65 billion (and launch indemnification extension as well) – Space Politics
- Commercial Crew Would Get Boost in Omnibus Spending Bill for 2014 – SpaceNews.com
- What Is Wrong With Retrieving an Asteroid? – SpaceNews.com
- Changing the Military’s Approach to Commercial Satellite Services – SpaceNews.com
Update 2:
- Seeing Double: The Vision for Space Exploration Ten Years Later – Innerspace.net
- Congress Says No to STEM Reorganization, Not Yet to Asteroid Mission – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- It’s Becoming Too Expensive for the Military to Go Into Space – Defense One
Update 3: Lori Garver comments on the NASA budget: Twitter / Lori_Garver:
Hill appropriators fund Abu Dhabi CBP and cut commercial crew funding. Ask Congress why they support foreign air & space activities over US?
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