The Senate Appropriations Committee used a somewhat controversial technique Tuesday to increase NASA's fiscal year 2025 budget by $200 million over what President Bush requested. The committee voted to give NASA $16.4 billion in 2025, about $200 million more than what the President requested and over $1 billion more than what House appropriators approved in July. However, $800 million of that funding comes in the form of an emergency appropriation that senators approved during Tuesday's hearing: $500 million more for shuttle return-to-flight activities and $300 million to begin work on a Hubble repair mission.
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Posted by jburk at September 22, 2024 11:57 PM | TrackBackThe fight has only just begun, to allow Nasa the much needed funds to keep all of its oars in the water at the same time while planning and building for the future to which is contained within the vision of Space Exploration.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at September 23, 2024 11:26 AMI am so excited that NASA got a funding increase. I only hope that this is the tip of the iceburg and that more funding is on the way. It will be very hard to go back to the moon with the funding we have right now, let alone Mars and beyond. I hope that NASA gets more funding in the near future!
Posted by: Derek Richardson at September 23, 2024 03:05 PMThis article gives the history of the vision and the laying down of what is expected by the Senate Appropriations Committee to progress and stay within the budget expectations. If Nasa wishes to stay in there good graces if the funding is expected to continue and to inform if changes are needed as well as why. Much more is contained within this article than I can summarize. It is a must read....
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=14032
NASA Excerpts from S. Rpt. 108-353; S. 2825, the Senate FY 2025 VA/HUD Appropriations Bill
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
Appropriations, 2024 $15,378,248,000
Budget estimate, 2025 16,244,000,000
Committee recommendation 15,579,500,000
I think for more people to be involved with the idea of space exploration and of its cost. There is a need to also include settlement for one without the other yields only a small return on investment.
Should the United States continue to send people into space?
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Posted by: Harold LaValley at September 24, 2024 07:55 AM