{"id":3274,"date":"2013-07-09T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2013-07-10T05:47:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T05:47:43","slug":"space-policy-roundup-july-9-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"Space policy roundup &#8211; July.9.13 [Update 2]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House committees will be marking up bills that affect NASA this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2013307090014\" target=\"_d\">Showdown on NASA&#8217;s future expected this week\u00a0 &#8211; Florida Today<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacepolitics.com\/2013\/07\/09\/edwards-introduces-alternative-nasa-authorization-bill\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=edwards-introduces-alternative-nasa-authorization-bill\" target=\"_d\">Edwards introduces alternative NASA authorization bill &#8211; Space Politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacenews.com\/article\/civil-space\/36143house-democrats-preparing-their-own-nasa-authorization-bill#.UdwbtayLcgo\" target=\"_d\">House Democrats Preparing Their Own NASA Authorization Bill &#8211; SpaceNews.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NGTRywxogK4\" target=\"_d\">The Future of Civil Space Exploration &#8211; YouTube<\/a> &#8211; Speech by Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) on July 8th on NASA policy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>Here is a long <a href=\"http:\/\/www8.nationalacademies.org\/aseboutreach\/publicviewhumanspaceflight.aspx\" target=\"_d\">table of papers<\/a> submitted to the National Academies <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/DEPS\/ASEB\/DEPS_069080\" target=\"_d\">Committee on Human Spaceflight<\/a> giving outside views on human spaceflight policy. The deadline for <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/DEPS\/ASEB\/DEPS_083343\" target=\"_blank\">paper submission<\/a> is tonight.<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>Other space policy related items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/larrybell\/2013\/07\/09\/a-conversation-with-buzz-aldrin-regarding-his-vision-for-space-exploration\/\" target=\"_d\">A Conversation With Buzz Aldrin Regarding His Vision For Space Exploration &#8211; Forbes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/indrus.in\/blogs\/2013\/07\/08\/brics_aim_to_drive_agenda_using_soft_power_26861.html\" target=\"_d\">Why there is not enough space in the Final Frontier &#8211; Russia &amp; India Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/aerospace\/robotic-exploration\/is-nasa-being-too-protective-of-mars\" target=\"_d\">Is NASA Being Too Protective of Mars? <em>Two astrobiologists think we could send more probes to Mars if we didn\u2019t spend time and money sterilizing them<\/em> &#8211; IEEE Spectrum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: The House Appropriations Committee with jurisdiction over NASA released its draft bill today. It cuts NASA funding by about a billion dollars to $16.6B. However, it nevertheless specifically instructs NASA to fund the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft at specific levels and even dictates what total payload mass the SLS must achieve. Never mind that there will be no money for payloads for it. I don&#8217;t see anything dealing directly with commercial crew and cargo.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/appropriations.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=341771\" target=\"_d\">Appropriations Committee Releases the Fiscal Year 2014 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill | Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/appropriations.house.gov\/UploadedFiles\/BILLS-113HR-SC-AP-FY2014-CJS-SubcommitteeDraft.pdf\" target=\"_d\">BILLS-113HR-SC-AP-FY2014-CJS-Subcommittee Draft (pdf)<\/a> &#8211; see NASA section on p. 57<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the Committee page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) \u2013 <\/b>NASA is funded at $16.6 billion in the bill, a decrease of $928 million below the fiscal year 2013 enacted level and $1.1 billion below the President\u2019s request. This funding includes:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>$3.6 billion for Exploration \u2013 $202 million below the fiscal year 2013 enacted level. This includes funding to keep NASA on schedule for upcoming Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and Space Launch System flight program milestones.<\/li>\n<li>$4.8 billion for NASA Science programs \u2013 $266 million below the fiscal year 2013 enacted level. This includes funding above the President\u2019s request for planetary science to ensure the continuation of critical research and development programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update 2<\/strong>:\u00a0 Jeff Foust provides a table showing the differences between the House allocations for different NASA programs and the Administration&#8217;s requests: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacepolitics.com\/2013\/07\/09\/house-appropriators-propose-16-6-billion-for-nasa\/\" target=\"_d\">House appropriators propose $16.6 billion for NASA &#8211; Space Politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House committees will be marking up bills that affect NASA this week: Showdown on NASA&#8217;s future expected this week\u00a0 &#8211; Florida Today Edwards introduces alternative NASA authorization bill &#8211; Space Politics House Democrats Preparing Their Own NASA Authorization Bill &#8211; SpaceNews.com The Future of Civil Space Exploration &#8211; YouTube &#8211; Speech by Rep. Donna Edwards &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3274\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space policy roundup &#8211; July.9.13 [Update 2]<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-QO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3243,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3243","url_meta":{"origin":3274,"position":0},"title":"Space policy roundup &#8211; July.8.13 [Update 2]","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Various space policy related items: What NASA wants in an authorization bill - Space Politics House committees to take up NASA authorization, appropriations bills this week - Space Politics House Subcommittee Markups of NASA Authorization and Appropriations Bills Next Week - spacepolicyonline.com Space Policy Events for the Week of July\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Space Policy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Space Policy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3720,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3720","url_meta":{"origin":3274,"position":1},"title":"Space policy roundup &#8211; July.30.13","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A collection of space policy items: Senate panel approves NASA bill that conflicts with House version - Florida Today Senate Commerce Committee Clears 2013 NASA Authorization Bill Senate Commerce Committee to markup NASA authorization bill today - Space Politics \"NASA non-concurs\" - The Planetary Society On the Record With ...\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Space Policy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Space Policy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3464,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3464","url_meta":{"origin":3274,"position":2},"title":"Space policy roundup &#8211; July.17.13 [Update 3]","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Future Space Leaders Foundation is hosting its second annual one-day event on Capitol Hill covering cross-cutting issues in space. 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The budgets in the two chambers different considerably and will have to be reconciled at some point. 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